Mõigu is a subdistrict of the district of
Kesklinn (Town Center) in
Tallinn, the capital of
Estonia. It is located on the northeastern side of
Lake Ülemiste. It has a population of 377 ().
Mõigu's former
German name until 1918 was ''Moik'', also spelled ''Moick''.
Mõigu village was first time mentioned in written in 1241 in
Liber Census Daniæ under name of ''Møickæ''. The village in that time situated few kilometres south-east from current Mõigu subdistrict of Tallinn.
At the end of 16th century a Mõigu manor (Moik, Moick) was founded at the farm-plot of a peasant called Vana Jaan (Old Jaan) at the territory of Mõigu village. About a century later the manor was moved to this-time
Järveküla village. This caused exchanging the names of the villages, as inhabitants of (former) Järveküla were moved to Mõigu while the manor was moved from Mõigu to Järveküla, and both sides took their place-name with them. Therefore, the heart of current Järveküla (literally: Lake-village) is about kilometre off from the Lake Ülemiste while Mõigu manor is still standing just 100 metres from the coast of the lake.
Mõigu as a separate hamlet existed until the 1970s, then most of its territory was incorporated into neighbouring
Peetri village.
Cemetery in Mõigu
Mõigu was the former location of a large
Baltic German burial ground in Tallinn, known as
Mõigu cemetery (in
Estonian
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See also ...
: ''Mõigu kalmistu''; in German: ''der Friedhof von Moik'') which was founded around 1774. The cemetery was flattened over a 170 years later around 1950–1951, during the second
occupation of the Baltic states
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were invaded and occupied in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, under the leadership of Stalin and auspices of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that had been signed between Nazi Germany and the Soviet ...
, by Russian
Soviet authorities governing the
Estonian SSR
The Estonian SSR,, russian: Эстонская ССР officially the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic,, russian: Эстонская Советская Социалистическая Республика was an ethnically based adminis ...
at the time.
See also
*
Tallinn Airport
References
External links
Image of an 1860 map showing the district of Moigu and the area of the cemetery
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Subdistricts of Tallinn
Kesklinn, Tallinn