Vaemla

58.83416722.833611Koordinaten: 58 ° 50 'N, 22 ° 50'

Vaemla ( German Waimel or Waimell ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Käina ( Käina vald ). It is the second largest Estonian island of Hiiumaa ( German Dagö ).

Description and History

Vaemla today has 24 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). The village lies east of the island's capital Kärdla ( Kertel ). From Vaemla from a dam connecting the islands of Hiiumaa and Kassari.

1453 Vaemla was first mentioned under the name Waimonen. 1564 is the wacke recorded by Vaemla, 1688 the estate of Vaemla. For several centuries it was owned by the family sergeant. Last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform was the aristocratic Baltic German family of the PAHLEN.

From single-storey manor house of limestone are found today only the ruins. Receive is still partially the 5.8 -acre park of the estate in the English style.

Johann Köler

A 1976 memorial stone erected in the park of the estate reminded today of the Estonian painter Johann Köler ( 1826-1899 ), who was prolonged in 1863 at the invitation of the landowner Rudolf von Gernet guest in Vaemla.

Many inhabitants of the place he has immortalized in his paintings. The best known example is the monumental fresco Kölers for Tallinn Karlskirche. In Christ there many recognized the coachman Villem Tamm from Good Kassari again.

Business and industry

In Vaemla is a wool factory, most of which is now a museum. It is housed in a former storehouse of the estate. There are various machines wool and woolen manufactures of the 19th and 20th centuries are on display. The visitor learns the wool industry in the past and present know.

In the vernacular of Hiiumaa Vaemla is jokingly called the " oil capital ". Beginning of the 20th century was the local squire Gustav Wilhelm Gotthard from the PAHLEN dig here for oil, having held a petroleum odor in his basement and works well. He was subsequently perform several hundred test drilling and committed various geologists. The fruitless search for the " black gold Hiiumaa " continued into the 20s of the 20th century.