Nõva is a village in
Lääne-Nigula Parish
Lääne-Nigula Parish ( et, Lääne-Nigula vald) 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 Taebl ...
Lääne County
Lääne County ( et, Lääne maakond or ''Läänemaa'', literally "Western land"; german: Wiek; la, Rotalia) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in western Estonia and borders the Baltic Sea to the north, Harju County to the north-ea ...
, on the northwestern coast of
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 ...
. It was the administrative centre of
Nõva Parish
Nõva ( et, Nõva vald) was a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality of Estonia, in Lääne County. It had a population of 465 (2008) and an area of 129.6 km². During the administrative reform of Estonian local governments in 2017, ...
. Nõva has a population of 136 as of 2010.
Nõva was first mentioned in 1402 as ''Neyve'', the name is believed to originate from the same Finno-Ugric root which has given a name to
Neva River.
Nõva is home to wooden St. Olaf's church which was built somewhere in the 18th century. Educator and publisher
Friedrich Brandt (1830–1890) served as a sacristan in Nõva in the 1870s.
Swedish politician
Ilmar Reepalu was born in Nõva in 1943.
References
Villages in Lääne County
Kreis Harrien
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