Auküla is a village in

Haljala Parish Haljala Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 4297 (2021) and an area of 549 km2. Populated places Small borough Haljala - Võsu Villages Aaspere - Aasu - Aasumetsa - Aaviku - ...

Lääne-Viru County Lääne-Viru County ( or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern. Lääne-Viru borders Id ...

, in northern

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. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It is located about southwest of Haljala, the administrative centre of the

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, and about northwest of the town of

Rakvere Rakvere is the administrative center, or county seat, of Lääne-Viru County in northern Estonia, about 100 km southeast of Tallinn and 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea. Rakvere boasts a distinctive architectural feature: th ...

. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 59. In 1861, a local three-grade school started operating in Auküla. However, in 1930 it was closed due to the

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. Nowadays the schoolhouse is used as a residential building. In 1996 a memorial stone was erected in front of the building.

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Villages in Lääne-Viru County {{LääneViru-geo-stub