Kudani

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Kudani (Swedish Gutanäs, German Kudanes ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Noarootsi ( Noarootsi vald ) in Lääne in Estonia.

Description

The place has eleven inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). He more than twelve kilometers north of the district capital of Haapsalu.

The village said to have been formerly an island called Krok - skäre with a fishing port. 1540 was the there mentioned as Guthnis documented. In 1575 it was destroyed by the Russians and Tatars; End of the 1580s he was resettled.

The place name is once again officially bilingual Estonian and Swedish, as the village used to belong to the traditional settlement area of ​​the Estonian Swedes.

To the north of the village center extends the Kudani Lake ( Kudani järv ). He is since 1964 part of the extensive nature reserve Silma ( Silma looduskaitseala ) with its numerous species of birds.