Esiküla

58.807522.8325Koordinaten: 58 ° 48 'N, 22 ° 50'

Esiküla is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Käina ( Käina vald ). It belongs to the district Hiiu ( Hiiu maakond ). Esiküla located on the offshore island of Hiiumaa Kassari ( German Kassar ).

Description

Esiküla ( German Esiküll ) has 79 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011).

The place is one of the four villages on the island Kassari.

Chapel

Esiküla is primarily known for the Evangelical Lutheran chapel on the island. The single-nave church was probably built in the 18th century. A predecessor of wood was probably already in the 16th century at the same location.

The current temple made ​​of stone with its traditional thatched roof in 1801 fundamentally transformed. It was renovated in 1992/93 and again consecrated. Above the main entrance of the tower in the Gothic style.

In the cemetery next to the chapel, many members of the aristocratic Baltic German family Stackelberg are buried. They owned the estate of Kassari.

At the cemetery the ancestors of the poet Debora Vaarandi (1916-2007), the grandparents of the Estonian poetess Marie Under (1883-1980) and the actor Olev Eskola (1914-1990) are buried. At the cemetery, and the Estonian steward Villem Tamm (1836-1915) is buried. He was the artist Johann Köler model for his famous Christ fresco in the Karlskirche of Tallinn.