Sutlepa

59.05305623.605278Koordinaten: 59 ° 3 ' N, 23 ° 36' O

Sutlepa (Swedish Sutlep ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Noarootsi ( Noarootsi vald ). It is in the west- Estonian county Läänemaa.

Description

The village has 152 inhabitants (as of 2006). It is 13 km northeast of Haapsalu.

Sutlepa was first mentioned in 1507 as Sutloppe documented. The place belongs to the traditional settlement area of ​​the Estonian Swedes. Most of them settled in 1941 in the wake of World War II to Sweden.

Worth seeing especially the large boulders around the village. The largest among them, the Ristikivi, has a height of 3.6 meters and a circumference of 29 meters.

In the center of Sutlepa is now home to a windmill made ​​of wood. It was built according to plans from the 19th century in 2003. At that time stood in the parish Noarootsi over a hundred of these mills, but none of them is get more in stock.

The historic chapel of Sutlepa came from the 17th century and was remodeled in 1834. The Protestant church with its 150 seats, built entirely of wood. In the 1970s the building was converted into the ethnographic open-air museum of the Estonian capital Tallinn, where it is a major attraction today.