Narowa Wasserfall und Fabrik Kränholm 1886

Kreenholm (german: Krähnholm for ''

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islet'') is a river island in

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

, located in the

Narva River The river Narva ( et, Narva jõgi; russian: Нарва), formerly also Narova flows north into the Baltic Sea and is the largest Estonian river by discharge. A similar length of land far to the south, together with it and a much longer interme ...

, within the city limits of Narva. The island is in area, and is long and wide. The island divides the Narva Waterfall into eastern and western branches; the Estonia–

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border runs through the eastern branch. In the 14th century a

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was already operating on Kreenholm. In 1538 the Livonian Order built a

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on the left bank of the river just opposite the island, and in 1823 a cloth factory operated by a local merchant, Paul Momma, was opened on the right bank of the Narva River. Baron Stieglitz's flax mill was located on the right bank. In 1856,

Ludwig Knoop Baron Johann Ludwig von Knoop (15 May 1821, in Bremen – 14 August 1894, in Bremen) was a cotton merchant and entrepreneur from the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen, who became one of the richest entrepreneurs in his time. He was created ...

acquired the whole island and founded a textile factory there which was known as the Krenholm Manufacturing Company.

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Islands of Estonia Narva River islands of Estonia {{idaviru-geo-stub

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