Vaisi 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 Taebla ...
,
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 ...
, in western
Estonia
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.
Before the administrative reform of Estonian local governments in 2017, the village belonged to
Nõva Parish
Nõva ( et, Nõva vald) was a rural 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, a new local government unit ...
.
The name ''Waisoe'' was used for the village in 1402, and the name ''Waise'' in 1615. 18th century maps use the form ''Waisi''.
In 1402 the village ownership moved from
Lihula Abbey to
Padise Abbey
Padise Abbey ( et, Padise klooster) was a former Cistercian monastery in Padise in Harju County, Estonia, settled in 1310 by the dispossessed monks of Dünamünde Abbey in Latvia. It was converted into a fortress after its dissolution in 1 ...
.
Near Vaisi and
Variku
Variku is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western 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 f ...
is Lake Tamre, where the village of Tamre was located according to a map compiled by Count
Ludwig August Mellin in the 18th century.
According to the 2011 census, the population was 35. There is a bus stop located inside the village.
References
Villages in Lääne County
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