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Käina Churchyard

German: Keinis

Käina Churchyard

For six centuries, from the 13th to the second half of the 19th, the people of Käina were buried around their church. In the 20th century the graveyard was destroyed when a machine and tractor station was built on it, and of the old grave markers only two survive: that of Juhan Juurmann of Jausa, who died in 1853, and that of little Olga von Gernet, daughter of the manager of Aadma manor, who died in 1856 aged two. A half-broken 17th-century ring cross stands by the 18th-century burial chapel. East of the wall lies a mass grave of locals executed in October 1941.

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

Eesti keeles

Kuus sajandit, 13. sajandist 19. sajandi teise pooleni, maeti Käina inimesed oma kiriku ümber. 20. sajandil kalmistu hävitati, kui sinna rajati masina-traktorijaam, ning vanadest hauatähistest on alles vaid kaks: 1853. aastal surnud Jausa Juhan Juurmanni ja Aadma mõisa valitseja kaheaastaselt 1856. aastal surnud tütre Olga von Gerneti oma. Poolik 17. sajandi rõngasrist seisab 18. sajandi matusekabeli juures. Piirdemüürist ida pool on 1941. aasta oktoobris hukatud kohalike ühishaud.

Map of the area around Käina Churchyard
58.82877° N, 22.77671° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4ina_kirikuaed ↗

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