Illuka

59.23638927.489167Koordinaten: 59 ° 14 ' N, 27 ° 29'

Illuka is a village (Estonian küla ) in Ida- Viru (East Wierland ) in northeastern Estonia. It is the capital of the homonymous country church ( Illuka vald ).

Description and History

Illuka ( German Illuck ) has 88 inhabitants ( 2011). It is 15 kilometers from the capital of the district, Jõhvi away.

1424, the village was first mentioned under the name Somovere. For the year 1782, a small Orthodox chapel of the local Russian peasants is proved. In 1930 the wooden Evangelical Lutheran Church of Illuka was inaugurated.

Good Illuka

The historic estate of Illuka was first mentioned in documents in 1657. In the second half of the 19th century it belonged to two brothers Oscar and Eduard Dieck Hoff, who had inherited the estate of her mother, Caroline Dieck Hoff (nee von Bellingshausen ).

Between 1885 and 1888 under the eye of the owner Oscar Dieckhoff today's single-storey stone mansion. It was built in the style of historicism from plans that coming from Rakvere architect Friedrich modes. In the facade rises a high neo-Gothic Mittelrisalit with stepped gables and turrets.

1912 acquired the aristocratic Baltic German family of Nottbeck. With the Estonian land reform of 1919, the last private owner, Claus von Nottbeck was expropriated. He arrived in 1939 as part of the resettlement of the German - Baltic with his family over the Warthegau to Germany. Since 1921 located in the building, the school of the village. It is used as a starting point for bear and moose hunts.

The large park is decorated in English style.