Kohtla

59.35166727.2125Koordinaten: 59 ° 21 ' N, 27 ° 13' O

The village Kohtla (Estonian Kohtla küla ) is located in Ida -Viru county (East Wierland ) in northeastern Estonia. It is the capital of the homonymous country church ( Kohtla vald ).

Description and History

The village has 79 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2010). It is just east of the city Kohtla- Nõmme in a vast karst area.

(Also called Kohtla- Vanaküla ) Kohtla goes back to the proven since 1241 Odri village. The first written information about the court Kohtla ( German Kochtel ) date from the year 1419th From 1844 the village was only Kohtla as the Court. The farm was from 1750 to expropriation in the course of the Estonian land reform in 1919 owned by the aristocratic Baltic German family Stackelberg. The mansion burned in 1941 during the Second World War from.

In Kohtla archaeologists made ​​several treasure finds, including Arabic coins from the 8/9 Century.

The most famous son of the town was the chess grandmaster Lembit Oll ( 1966-1999 ). He is buried in Tallinn.

Station Kohtla

Kohtla lies on the railway line between the Estonian capital Tallinn and Narva. It was inaugurated in the early 1870s. The first station is from 1876. Bahnhofsbebäude Today was built in 1950 in the style of his time. It was sold to a private citizen in 2010. The platform is 330 m long.