Mõigu
Mõigu is a municipality (Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn. The historical German name is Moik or Moick.
Location and History
The district is located in the southeast of the district Kesklinn ( " downtown " ) on the outer boundary of the city, about five kilometers from the center of Tallinn. Mõigu has 354 inhabitants (as of 1 May 2010).
The settlements Mõigu and Järveküla was first mentioned in 1241 under the name Møickæ and Jærgækylæ. They were initially placed under the Tallinn castle. 1652 both went into the ownership of the Tallinn Cathedral by donation.
Between 1669 and 1683, the Court Moick ( Mõigu mõis ) was founded. He was given the 1692 Tallinn Cathedral as Hospitalgut.
1710 were destroyed in the course of the Northern War Mõigu and Järveküla. During reconstruction, the Court Mõigu was moved to the field of Järveküla. The village Järveküla was new to the Hofland of Mõigu. Thither the peasant population was resettled and took the old place names. That's why today is the manor of Mõigu only a hundred meters from Lake Ülemiste, while the estate of Järveküla (literally " Seedorf " ) is located a few kilometers from the lake.
In the second half of the 18th century, the Russian Empress Catherine II gave the court Mõigu the ( German ) Tallinn Domkirchengemeinde. The low- storey stone mansion was built around 1800. The house has undergone extensive renovations in the 20th century and stands today as a residential building in private ownership. The outbuildings are mostly dilapidated or demolished. The former Hofland also includes a park that extends to the shores of Lake Ülemiste.
Mõigu was an independent village until well into the 1970s until it was partially incorporated in the territory of the city of Tallinn. The other part fell to the village Peetri ( Petrikülla ) in the rural community of Rae ( Johannishof ).
Cemetery Mõigu
The historic Baltic German cemetery of Mõigu ( Mõigu Kalmistu ) was founded in 1774 by the ( German Baltic ) parish of Tallinn Toompea. This was preceded by a decree of Russian Empress Catherine II of 19 May 1772 which forbade the burial in churches and generally demanded the burial in cemeteries outside the city limits. With this measure, especially infectious diseases such as the plague should be fought next to lack of space in the crypts.
In the cemetery of Mõigu primarily wealthy citizens of the city of Tallinn and the Baltic German nobility were buried. From high artistic level was mainly the grave chapel of the noble family von Manteuffel. At the cemetery were, among others, Paul Demetrius of Kotzebue (1810-1884) and his wife Wilhelmine Elisabeth (1818-1902), the daughter of Peter von Manteuffel (1768-1842), buried. Also their daughter Olga Anna Pauline von Rosen (1842-1931) and her husband Konstantin Andreas Nikolaus von Rosen (1834-1915) found in Mõigu their final resting place. Other celebrities included the Tallinn artist Karl Alexander Winkler (1860-1911) and the physician, mathematician, physicist and meteorologist Carl Ludwig Carpov († 1801).
The cemetery was 1950/51 completely destroyed and leveled by the Soviet occupation authorities. The historic grave stones were used for construction work. The same directed against the legacy of the German Baltic in Estonia destruction measures were the cemeteries of Tallinn Kopli and Kalamaja.