Pöide Parish

Pöide ( German: Peude ) is a rural municipality in the Estonian Saare County with an area of ​​123.6 km ². It has 953 inhabitants ( 2006).

Pöide lies to the east of the island of Saaremaa. In addition to the main town Tornimäe ( 119 inhabitants ) includes the rural community of the villages Ardla, Are, Iruste, Kahutsi, Kakuna, Kanis Saare, Keskvere, Koigi, Kõrkvere, Kärneri, Kübassaare, Leisi, Levala, Metsara, Mui, Muraja, Neemi, Nenu, Oti ( German: Peudehof ), Puka, Pöide, Reina, Sundimetsa, Talila, Ula, Unguna, Uuemõisa, Veere and Välta.

Worth seeing are the imposing church of Pöide with its tower, the windmill of Kõrkvere and the manor of Oti, once the headquarters of the Aderkas family. In the cemetery of the Pöide in October 1917 near Pöide fallen officer and writer Walter Flex lay buried until the Nazis allowed patient transfer his remains to Königsberg.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Aira Kaal (1911-1988), Estonian writer, born in Mui
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