Reigi
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Reigi is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Kõrgessaare ( Kõrgessaare vald ). It is the second largest Estonian island of Hiiumaa ( German Dagö ).
Description and History
Reigi ( German Roicks ) has 38 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). The town is located 14 kilometers west of the capital Kärdla ( Kertel ). The village's name is derived possibly from the Swedish word rök ( " smoke ").
Reigi was once the center of the Swedish -born inhabitants of Hiiumaa. The village was first mentioned in records in 1453 under the name of whitefish.
1470 granted the country Johann Wolthus of Herse the inhabitants Reigis Sweden and other villages of Hiiumaa extensive privileges as free peasants. Wolter von Plettenberg confirmed the rights of 1503. Privileges were then placed under the Swedish rule of Hiiumaa from the new landlords increasingly in question. The Swedes tried by inputs, including directly by the Court to set against violations of their privileges to defend.
In the end, their efforts were unsuccessful. 1781 almost all Swedes Hiiumaa were deported in Ukrainian regions on Dnepr river for alleged insubordination on the orders of the Russian Empress Catherine II. About ten percent died on the way to their new home.
After the expulsion of Sweden by the Russian authorities Reigi was almost purely estnischsprachig. There, the Baltic German nobleman Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern- Sternberg (1744-1811) founded a Beigut. It evolved with dairy, cheese factory, hat factory and a brick into an industrial center of the island.
Church of Reigi
Before 1626 the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Reigi arose. Posted on the initiative of King Gustav II Adolf to Estonia, Livonia and Ingria inspector, the Bishop of Västerås Rudbeckius John (1581-1646), Reigi 1627 separated as an independent parish by parish Käina. 1690 a new church was built of wood.
Today Jesus stone church was built in 1799-1802. It was consecrated on 25 August 1802. Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern- Sternberg was donated in memory of his son Otto Dietrich Gustav (1773-1800), who had committed suicide in June 1800 because of gambling debts. At the main entrance of the church, the family crest of the Ungern- Sternberg is seen. On the east wall has an inscription points to the pious foundation.
The high walls and the high roof gives the building a striking appearance. The church with its massive square tower was frequently rebuilt. The last major redesign of the single nave church dates from 1899. Perched on the top of the tower a lily can be seen that comes from the family coat of arms Ungern- Sternberg.
Worth seeing are inside the painting " Christ in Gethsemane " by an unknown author in the 17th century, and wood carvings from the 16th to 18th centuries. The church is also known for its outstanding organ.
The church is the cemetery of the village. On him numerous Baltic German nobles, pastors and Estonian and Swedish farmers are buried.
The pastorate of Reigi has produced influential and reformist priest. These include the end of the 18th century, a native of Finland folk pedagogue Carl Forsman ( pastor 1775-1812 ), the educational and cultural activist Gustav Feliks channel ( pastor 1865-1872 ) and his son Immanuel channel ( pastor 1880-1885 ), who in 1882 reigi the first public library founded Hiiumaa.
Church and cemetery are located today in the field of the neighboring village Pihla.
1884 occurred in the course of Russification of Estonia about 700 resident Reigi to the Russian Orthodox faith over. For them, an Orthodox church was built in the nearby Puski.
Literary
Substances from Reigi inspired the Finnish- Estonian writer Aino Kallas (1878-1956), who frequently stayed during the summer months on Hiiumaa to their published in 1926 in Finnish amendment Reigin pappi (Estonian Reigi õpetaja, 1928; German The pastor of Roicks, 1929 ).
She plays in Reigi of the 17th century. It focuses on the tragic love story between Wycken Catharina, the wife of the local pastor Paul Lempelius, and the curate Jonas Kempe. The two lovers are taken at the end and beheaded in Tallinn.
Kallas ' book was filmed in 1977 in the Estonian SSR.
The same subject is devoted to the 1971 premiere of the opera by Eduard Tubin Reigi õpetaja to a libretto by Jaan Kross.