Kidaste

58.99555622.596667Koordinaten: 59 ° 0 ' N, 22 ° 36' O

Kidaste is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Kõrgessaare ( Kõrgessaare vald ). It is the second largest Estonian island of Hiiumaa ( German Dagö ).

Description and location

Kidaste (Swedish Kiddas ) has 22 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011).

The village is located nine kilometers west of the capital Kärdla ( Kertel ). It was first mentioned in records in 1591 under the name Kyddas.

Day care centers - Irja

In the place lived for centuries mainly Swedish-speaking inhabitants of Hiiumaa. They were known for their love of freedom, their pride and their rebelliousness.

The most famous son of the town was the estonia Swedish farmer Jöran Jakobson, who among the local population enjoyed great popularity under the name of daycare centers - Irja. He traveled within thirty years, more than ten times as spokesmen of Hiiumaa Sweden to the court of Stockholm, to guide against violations of legal rights, high taxes, trade restrictions and arbitrary rule by the local landowner lawsuit. He was first heard by the consultants of the Swedish King Karl XI. Later interventions, however, remained inconclusive. Jöran Jakobson also drew the ire of the local landlords Axel Julius De la Gardie (1637-1710) to.

After dropping gauntlet Jöran Jakobson was outlawed. He then hid more than twelve years in the forests of Hiiumaa. To lose track of him in 1692.

1721 Hiiumaa as the whole of Estonia was part of the Russian Empire. The Russian government deported in 1781 almost all of the island of Sweden for alleged insubordination in the Ukraine. Many died on the way. Thus ended the Swedish colonization Kidastes.