Hullo

58.99166723.2425Koordinaten: 59 ° 0 ' N, 23 ° 15' O

Hullo ( estonia Swedish Holo ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Vormsi ( Vormsi vald ) in Lääne. The place is located in the center of the fourth largest Estonian island of Vormsi ( German Worms, Swedish Ormsö ), towards the south coast.

Description and History

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1540 under the name Hully, but is probably much older.

The village now has 99 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). As in all villages Vormsis existed before the Second World War the majority of the population of Estonia Sweden. They were evacuated to the occupation of Estonia by the Red Army to Sweden.

Hullo is the administrative center of the island Vormsi. There you will find the seat of the municipal administration, the post office, the school and the library of the island. It was founded in 1919 as a Swedish-speaking library and 1924 expanded to include a library in Estonian.

Hullo west of the lake lies Prestviik. From there, the river flows Prestviigi oja 1.1 km in a southerly direction until it ( Laht Hullo ) on the Bay of Hullo flows into the Baltic.

Attractions

Evangelical Lutheran Olav's Church

The town's landmark is the built of limestone Evangelical Lutheran Church in Gothic style. It is dedicated to St. Olav.

Is the date 1219, but this is only speculative at the present church door. According to legend, the Danish king Valdemar II is said to have given the impetus to build the church. Not until the 14th century, the house of God is safe in use. The older part is now used as a chorus. In the 15th century it was supplemented by a long wooden house and a bell tower.

The ship of today's stone church was erected in 1632 in place of the wooden construction. Traditionally lacking today in the island Churches in Estonia, the bell tower. 1772 and 1929 the church was extensively renovated. In the choir of the masonry block altar is preserved.

During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the church stood unused. It was only in 1990 reopened. Today it is used for the entire island as the active center of the Lutheran church.

Before the church is two memorial stones. They are the Swedish missionary Lars Johan Österblom, who worked in the second half of the 19th century Vormsi, and the Estonian-Swedish politician Hans Pohl ( 1876-1930 ) devoted, who has done much for the cultural life of the Estonian Swedes.

In the immediate vicinity is the old Swedish cemetery of the village. There are numerous wheel crosses. They were made by the farmers themselves. The oldest Cross, dates from 1743, the youngest of 1923.

In addition to the cemetery, which opened on June 2, 1929 memorial to the originating shipped out of Vormsi fallen in the Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia ( 1918-1920 ). The monument was not destroyed for unknown reasons during the Soviet occupation of Estonia.

The pastorate of Hullo dates from the 1930s.

Parunikivi

500 meters east of the church is located in a forest of moss-covered Parunikivi ( " Baron Stein" ), a large boulder from Rapakiwi. It has a circumference of 20.6 meters. Since 1941 he is a listed building.

The boulder serves as a memorial stone for the German Baltic nobleman Otto Friedrich von Stackelberg From Hold. On its east side stands the highly weathered inscription

Orthodox Church

The establishment of an Orthodox church in Hullo goes back to the year 1896. In the era of Russification were almost 130 islanders from Lutheran over to the Orthodox faith. 1899, the Church of the Resurrection of Hullo was completed. The floor plan is a Greek cross represents the cellar loose church with its bell tower was built in the style of historicism from red bricks.

1937, the services were stopped because there was hardly orthodox believers on the island. With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the church lost its character as a house of worship and was used as a shed. Since the 1950s, it is largely in ruins.

The two best known members of the Orthodox church were the Estonian Horticultural Johann Spuhl Rotalia (1859-1916) and the father of the composer Cyrillus Kreek, Konstantin Kreek (1852-1916), who worked on Vormsi as a teacher. Both tombs are located directly behind the school building from Hullo.