Pimestiku

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Pimestiku is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Vaivara ( Vaivara vald ). It is located in Ida -Viru county (East Wierland ) in northeastern Estonia.

Description and History

The village has 7 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2012). Located a few meters from the Baltic Sea in the vicinity of up to twelve meters high Klint.

The first settlement was probably due to a donation by the landowner of Vaivara, Baron Karl von Arpshofen back. His chamber Young Mart Siren received land near the Narva Bay to build a farm. The village is first mentioned in 1850 as " Streigesinde ".

End of the 19th century to the entire coastal region of summer houses, as well as between Pimestiku and Meriküla. A bathing and spa tourism in the Gulf of Finland began to develop.

Beginning of April 1944 reached the front Pimestiku. In the heavy fighting between the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht on the so-called " Tannnenberg - line ", the village was almost completely wiped out. After the end of World War II only a few families came back.

Bronze Age ax - Fund

In the homestead belonging to Pimestiku Mummussaare was discovered in 1939 by chance an ax from the Bronze Age. The Pimestiku - ax (also called Vaivara - ax ) is 7.5 cm long and weighs 133.3 grams. The ornaments resemble the one hand, similar artifacts in central Sweden, on the other hand finds from the area of ​​the river Kama in Russia.