Põlula

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Põlula ( German Poll) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Rägavere ( Raggafer ) in Lääne -Viru county (West Wierland ).

Location and History

The village is about 15 kilometers from Rakvere ( Wesenberg ) situated on the river Kunda (Estonian Kunda Jõgi ). It has 85 inhabitants ( 2000).

Põlula was first mentioned in 1241 as Pøllula.

Farm

Põlula is known today for his ichthyological hatchery. The only public facility of its kind in Estonia is used in the context of nature conservation and environmental protection of inventory securing endangered species in Estonian rivers. Focus is on the rearing of young salmon.

Famous people

Põlula was the birthplace of the German - Estonian organ builder Gustav Normann ( 1821-1893 ). From Põlula came the Baltic German writer Ursula Zoege von Manteuffel (1850-1910, later Ursula Trebra - Lindenau ).

A visit to Põlula shortly before the end of Russian rule in Estonia described the Baltic German poet Oda Schaefer (1900-1988) in her memoirs. This story inspired her great- nephew, the German director Chris Kraus, for the film poll, which was released in Germany in 2011.

Good Põlula

The manor Põlula was first mentioned in documents in 1489. At the beginning of the 18th century it belonged to Henning Friedrich von Bassewitz ( 1680-1749 ), Duke of Holstein Karl Friedrich 's closest advisor ( 1700-1739 ). The duke 's son Karl Peter Ulrich was pretender to the throne of both the Swedish and the Russian crown. Count Bassewitz was a member of the Estonian Knighthood.

In 1765 the estate was the property of the noble family of Zoege. 1823/24 and 1827 to 1830 lived in Põlula the painter Wilhelm von Kügelgen ( 1802-1867 ), whose mother was the owner of the goods. From 1853 it belonged to the Stackelberg family before it ten years later was transferred to the family v. Krause.

With the Estonian land reform was the last German Baltic private owner, Wilhelm Hermann von Krause, expropriated. In the interwar period, the Estonian government donated the property to the politician Oskar Köster (1890-1941? ).

The two - and three-storey building partly of wood and stone was built in different stages. The original main building of wood was built in Baroque style with a central chimney mantle. The stone additions in the style of historicism behind the main house date from the 1880s. Behind it is a large distillery was built in 1870. Today it is only preserved as a ruin.

Since 1947 located in the mansion a (primary ) school.