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Famous life · 1922

A bird table by the cathedral ruins on Toome Hill

Lindude toitmise paviljon Toomemäel

In the first week of January 1922 the University of Tartu put up a small pavilion on Toome Hill, near the ruins of the medieval cathedral, as a feeding place for birds through the winter. It was to be stocked with every kind of bird food, grain, seeds and the like. It is a tiny item in Kaja, but a telling one: barely two years after the War of Independence, the young Estonian university was busy making its hilltop park a pleasant place. Toome Hill is still a park full of birds, around the red-brick ruins that now house the university museum.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

Eesti keeles

1922. aasta jaanuari esimesel nädalal ehitas Tartu ülikool Toomemäele keskaegse toomkiriku varemete lähedale väikese paviljonitaolise lindude talvise toitmise koha. Sinna pidi pandama kõiksugust linnutoitu – teri, seemneid ja muud. See on Kajas pisike sõnum, kuid kõnekas: vaevalt kaks aastat pärast Vabadussõda tegeles noor eestikeelne ülikool sellega, et oma mäepark meeldivaks muuta. Toomemägi on tänini lindudest kubisev park punastest tellistest varemete ümber, kus nüüd asub ülikooli muuseum.

Map of the area around A bird table by the cathedral ruins on Toome Hill
58.38030° N, 26.71600° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Kaja, 10 January 1922, p. 3 (DIGAR) ↗

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