Pöide (german: Peude) 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 ...

, on the eastern part 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 ...

Island,

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 ...

. Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in

Pöide Parish Pöide Parish was a municipality in Saare County, Estonia. The municipality covered an area of 123.6 km² (47.7 mi²) and had a population of 953 (as of 1 January 2006). During the administrative-territorial reform in 2017, all 12 muni ...

. Politician

Oskar Köster Oskar Köster (20 December 1890 in Pöide – 2 August 1941 Tallinn) was an Estonian politician. In 1926, he founded the newspaper ''Maa'' and was its chief editor. Köster was arrested by the NKVD on 22 July 1940 in Tallinn. He died of a heart a ...

(1890–1941) was born in Pöide.

References

Villages in Saare County Castles of the Teutonic Knights Kreis Ösel {{Saare-geo-stub