Kullamaa () is a village in

Lääne-Nigula Parish Lääne-Nigula Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne County. It has a population of 7,041 (as of 1 January 2019) and an area of . Lääne-Nigula Parish was established by merging Oru, Risti, and Taebla parishes after the mu ...

Lääne County Lääne County ( or ''Läänemaa'', literally "Western land"; ; ) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in western Estonia and borders the Baltic Sea to the north, Harju County to the north-east, Rapla County to the east, Pärnu Cou ...

, in western

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. (retrieved 28 July 2021) The first Estonian professional composer

Rudolf Tobias Rudolf Tobias ( – 29 October 1918) was the first Estonian professional composer, as well as a professional organist. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. His compositions include among others piano works, string quartets and an o ...

(1873–1918) lived in Kullamäe between 1885 and 1889, where his father served as the parish clerk. Later, composer

Artur Uritamm Artur Uritamm (9 September 1901 in Tõstamaa – 8 July 1982 in Pärnu) was an Estonian classical composer, organist and pedagogue. Uritamm was a student of Artur Kapp at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, graduating in 1937. He was on ...

served as the church organist. Kullamaa vv hoone

Pastor and translator

Heinrich Göseken Heinrich Göseken (13 April 1612 Hanover – 4 December 1681) was a Baltic-German Lutheran pastor, language enthusiast, occasional poet, and translator. He is credited with writing a grammar of Estonian as well as a Latin–Estonian–German dict ...

(1612–1681) worked as a pastor in Kullamaa church. He is credited with writing a grammar of

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as well as a

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dictionary.

Kullamaa church

The church dates from the 13th century, and was originally built without a tower. In 1774 the massive

buttress A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall. Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient (typically Gothic) buildings, as a means of providing support to act ...

es were added to prevent the church from sinking into the soft ground. It was also during the end of the 18th century that the tower was added to the building; the present-day tower however dates from 1870. During the 19th century the church also received a new

choir A choir ( ), also known as a chorale or chorus (from Latin ''chorus'', meaning 'a dance in a circle') is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform or in other words ...

. The interior includes a late-

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pulpit, a

Baroque The Baroque ( , , ) is a Western Style (visual arts), style of Baroque architecture, architecture, Baroque music, music, Baroque dance, dance, Baroque painting, painting, Baroque sculpture, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from ...

calvary group, Baroque epitaphs and tombstones, and an altar-painting from late 19th century.

Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Augusta Caroline Frederica Luise; 3 December 1764 – 27 September 1788), was the first wife of Frederick of Württemberg and the mother of William I of Württemberg. Early life Princess Augusta was bor ...

, owner of nearby

Koluvere Castle Koluvere Castle (; ), also Koluvere Episcopal Castle, (), is a castle in Koluvere, Lääne County, in western Estonia. History A castle has existed on a strategic location since the 13th century. In 1439, it came into possession of the bishop ...

and estranged first wife of

King Frederick I of Württemberg King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a constitutional monarch if his power is restrained by fi ...

, is buried in the church.

Kullamaa pharmacy

July 30 Events Pre-1600 * 762 – Baghdad is founded. * 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council. * 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay I ...

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one of the oldest rural pharmacies in Estonia was founded by

Oskar Mildebrath Oskar Fridrich Woldemar Mildebrath (March 2, 1849 – January 9, 1900) was a pharmacist in the Russian Empire who founded one of the oldest rural pharmacies in the country that stayed in business continuously at the same place, in the same build ...

at Kullamaa. It stayed in business continuously for 122 years, until 2008.

Gallery

File:Kullamaa vabadussõja mälestussammas.IMG 9538.jpg,

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the War of Freedom in Estonia, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Russian westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the ...

memorial File:Kullamaa pastoraadi peahoone.IMG 9535.jpg, Pastorate building File:Kullamaa pastoraat.JPG, Kullamaa church manor rectory

References

Villages in Lääne County Kreis Wiek {{Lääne-geo-stub