Kassari village

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Kassari is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Käina ( Käina vald ) in a circle Hiiu ( Hiiu maakond ).

The place is situated on the homonymous island Kassari, the five largest island of Estonia. Kassari ( German Kassar ) has 81 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011).

Good Kassari

The manor of Kassari dates from the early 18th century. 1765 was first mentioned under the name Aunack, in 1782 as Kassar, " which formerly was called Aunack ". From 1765 the estate was owned by the noble Baltic German family Stackelberg. First owner of Kassari was Caspar Heinrich von Stackelberg ( 1702-1778 ). Last owner before the expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 were Baron and Baroness Justus and Sofie von Stackelberg.

From the 18th century came the single-storey wooden mansion. It burned down in the 1920s.

To the former Well, the family von Stackelberg was to create a park that is still preserved. It contains rare tree species for the region. A chestnut avenue led to the former manor house. On the Stackelberg family, also rare for the region breeding of snails in Kassari with its relatively mild climate goes back.

The Chapel of Kassari is now in the field, it Esiküla village. There are numerous members of the family von Stackelberg are buried.

Museum of Kassari

Since 1967, the Heritage Museum Kassari island is housed in the former manager's house of the estate. The museum was founded as a private initiative by the local historian Volli Mäeumbaed, who was its first director. It is now under the Hiiumaa Muuseum in the island's capital Kärdla.

In the museum of local history to life on Kassari and local history from the Stone Age are presented in detail to the present. In addition, items of navigation and agriculture are seen. On display is also a lifeboat of the Estonia, which sank in September 1994 off the Finnish coast and over 850 people tore to death. Outside the museum is a large oak tree, the former center of the estate of Kassari.

Marie Under

Worth seeing is the tavern Mäeküla. In it, the village school was housed later. Local teacher was in the second half of the 18th century Friedrich Under ( 1843-1930 ). His wife Leena Kerner (1854-1934) came from Kassari. They are the parents of the Estonian poetess Marie Under ( 1883-1980 ). Born in Tallinn Marie Under often spent on Kassari.

Leiger Memorial

Just south of the village center there is a memorial for the mythological giant Leiger, the forefather of the island of Hiiumaa. The 3.5-meter high monument was built in 1991. The roguish statue of Tallinn sculptor Kalju Reitel (1921-2004) represents the giant, as he loaded with stones to build a bridge to the south.

This had the following explanation: the cozy giant who likes to go into the sauna and large cabbages eating was once emigrated from the neighboring island of Saaremaa, Hiiumaa after. His relative of Saaremaa, the giant Suur Tõll, he often visited, but did not make himself like wet feet. Leiger and his sons wanted Suur Tõll therefore build a bridge, which, however - how many major projects of the islanders - never end.

The beginning of the bridge is the vernacular after the southern headland Kassaris, the Sääretirp, at the beginning of the statue stands.

Sääretirp

To the south of the monument, the narrow spit of land extending into the open sea, the Sääretirp. Other names are Kassari säär or Orjaku säär.

The two-kilometer long spits runs in the northeast -southwest extension. The beaches and the shallow bay attract summer many tourists. Blue grass and juniper dominate the fauna, besides honeysuckle, black alder, buckthorn, snowball and sea cabbage. The Spit is a nature reserve.

In July of each year hosts the Music Festival Hiiu Folk on the headland.