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Fire, flood or disaster · 02.07.1926

The great fire of Otepää

Otepää suur tulekahju

Around half past eleven on 2 July 1926 a fire broke out in a house on Lille Street in Otepää, where washing was being done; the washerwoman had dozed off, and sparks escaped through a cracked chimney. In scorching heat the flames leapt from one wooden house to the next for six hours, through Piirmanni, Pärna, Veski, Uueturu and Oru streets, taking the dairy, a shop, a school and the old court house. Fifteen homes and 23 outbuildings were lost and twelve people burned. Many townsfolk had gone to the song festival in Tartu, so little furniture was saved.

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

Eesti keeles

2. juulil 1926 kella poole kaheteistkümne paiku puhkes Otepää Lille tänaval majas, kus pesti pesu, tulekahju: pesija oli väsinuna uinunud ja vigasest korstnast pääses tuli katusele. Kõrvetava kuumusega rändasid leegid kuus tundi puumajalt puumajale Piirmanni, Pärna, Veski, Uueturu ja Oru tänavale, hävitades meierei, kaupluse, kooli ja endise rahukogu hoone. Hävis 15 elumaja ja 23 kõrvalhoonet, 12 inimest sai põletushaavu. Paljud alevlased olid sõitnud Tartu laulupeole, nii et kraamist päästeti vähe.

Map of the area around The great fire of Otepää
58.05750° N, 26.49750° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Järva Teataja, 6 July 1926, p. 1 (DIGAR) ↗

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