Kurtna, Harju County

59.22888924.750833Koordinaten: 59 ° 14 ' N, 24 ° 45 ' E

Kurtna is a village (Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural municipality in Harju County Saku. It has 317 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2007).

The place was first mentioned in 1350 as Kurtena documented.

Posted in Kurtna are now the amusement park Vembu - tembumaa and the Motorcycle Museum, with over thirty pieces from Germany, the U.S., Russia and England.

In the 1960s, a large experimental station for poultry farming was built in Kurtna. Launched by the Estonian architect Valve Pormeister, one of the main representatives of organic architecture in the Soviet Union, designed the main building received the 1967 State Prize of the Estonian SSR. This is einfügende in nature functionalist house in the style of Nordic modernism reminiscent of buildings by Alvar Aalto ..