Anseküla (german: Anseküll) is a village in

Saaremaa Parish Saaremaa Municipality, also known as Saaremaa Rural Municipality ( et, Saaremaa vald), is a municipality in Saare County in western Estonia. It is the largest municipality in Estonia by land area. The administrative centre of the municipality is i ...

Saare County Saare County ( et, Saare maakond or ''Saaremaa''; la, Oesel; german: Ösel; sv, Ösel) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It consists of Saaremaa, the largest island of Estonia, and several smaller islands near it, most notably Muhu, Ruhnu, Abru ...

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, on the island of

Saaremaa Saaremaa is the largest island in Estonia, measuring . The main island of Saare County, it is located in the Baltic Sea, south of Hiiumaa island and west of Muhu island, and belongs to the West Estonian Archipelago. The capital of the island i ...

. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 39. The first church in Anseküla was built around 1300.History of the Anseküla church at (in Estonian) From 1846 to 1875, Martin Körber was the pastor in Anseküla. During Körber's tenure, the church was reconstructed in 1864. The rebuilt church was destroyed in 1944 during

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

. A lighthouse was later built at the former location of the church, but the church's graveyard is still in use.

Gallery

File:Anseküla algkooli hoone.jpg, Former Anseküla primary school. File:Anseküla bussipeatus.jpg, Anseküla bus stop. File:Anseküla cemetery war monument.JPG, World War II memorial. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in

Salme Parish Salme Parish was a municipality in Saare County, Estonia. It contained the northern half of the Sõrve Peninsula of the island of Saaremaa. Besides the small borough Salme there were 24 villages: Anseküla, Easte, Hindu, Imara, Järve, Kai ...

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Villages in Saare County {{saare-geo-stub