Rohuneeme is a village in

Viimsi Parish Viimsi Parish ( et, Viimsi vald) is a rural municipality in Northern Estonia, located North-East and neighbouring the capital Tallinn. It occupies an area of with a population of 20 580 (). The municipality contains the Viimsi Peninsula and sev ...

Harju County Harju County ( et, Harju maakond 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 so ...

in northern

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 is located about northeast of the centre of

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

, situated on the northern end of the Viimsi Peninsula. As of 2011 Census, the settlement's population was 440. The northernmost cape of the peninsula is named Rohuneem (literally: ''Cape of Grass''). The island of

Aegna Aegna is an Estonian island in the Bay of Tallinn in the Baltic Sea. Administratively it is part of the city of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia and is a sub district of the Kesklinn (City center) district. Geography Aegna island has an ...

, which administratively belongs to

, is located about 1.5 km northwest of Rohuneeme. There are also two small islets Kräsuli and Kumbli located in the straits between, which belong to Rohuneeme. Rohuneeme was first mentioned in 1375 as ''oppidum Longenes''. The narrow strait between Kräsuli and

was known as ''Wulfs Sund''. It has been known as a point for pirates to ambush the Novgorodian merchant ships which brought valuable goods to

. According to one hypothesis, the strait could have been the location of the battle at ''Iron Gate'' in 1032, mentioned in Russian chronicles. In battle, which though is usually located to northern Russia, Novgorodians led by Ulf Ragvaldsson suffered heavy loss. In the Middle Ages Rohuneeme was settled by Coastal Swedes. During the Soviet times a missile base was located on the southern side of the village. There is a harbour, store and a cemetery with chapel located in the village. The second President of Estonia Lennart Meri lived on the cape of Rohuneeme.

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{{Viimsi Parish Villages in Harju County