Kullamaa (german: Goldenbeck) is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, 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 ...

(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 dictionar ...

(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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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 buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral (s ...

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) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...

. The interior includes a late-

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pulpit, a

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calvary group, Baroque epitaphs and tombstones, and an altar-painting from late 19th century. Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, owner of nearby Koluvere Castle and estranged first wife of King Frederick I of Württemberg, 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 Islands ...

1886 Events January–March * January 1 – Upper Burma is formally annexed to British Burma, following its conquest in the Third Anglo-Burmese War of November 1885. * January 5– 9 – Robert Louis Stevenson's novella ''Strange ...

one of the oldest rural pharmacies in Estonia was founded by Oskar Mildebrath 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 ( et, Vabadussõda, literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Bolshevik westwa ...

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