Nõmmeveski is a village in
Kuusalu Parish
Kuusalu Parish () is a rural municipality in northern Estonia, the largest in Harju County. After joining with the adjacent Loksa Parish in 2005, the municipality has now a population of 6,863 (as of 1 January 2009) and covers an area of . The po ...
,
Harju County
Harju County ( or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla Count ...
in northern
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
,
in
Lahemaa National Park. It lies on the
Valgejõgi
Valgejõgi (lit. ''White River'') is a river in Northern Estonia. Its source is in Lake Porkuni in Pandivere (Lääne-Viru County) and it drains into Hara Bay (part of Finnish Gulf) at Loksa (Harju County).
Geography
Valgejõgi lacks any major ...
River, where there is a waterfall.
Name
The name ''Nõmmeveski'' means 'heath mill' (< ''nõmm'' 'heath, moor' + ''veski'' 'mill'). The site of the mill was originally called ''Vanaveski'' (literally, 'old mill') and was attested in written sources as ''quarn Wanna Weskil'' in the 17th century, when it was part of the neighboring village of
Vanaküla. In 1712, ''Wanna Külla Möll'' is mentioned among the scattered farms belonging to
Kõnnu, and
Enn Tarvel identified this name with Nõmmeveski. The settlement name is attested in 1739 as part of the personal name ''Nöm̄e Weski Mick'', and in 1796
Ludwig August Mellin designated two mills under the name ''Nömme''.
References
Villages in Harju County
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