Raikküla () is a village in
Rapla Parish
Rapla Parish () is an Estonian municipality located in Rapla County. It has a population of 13,193 (as of 1 January 2019) and an area of 859 km2.
Settlements
;Town:
Rapla
;Small boroughs:
Alu - Hagudi - Kaiu - Kuusiku
;Villages:
Äherd ...
,
Rapla County
Rapla County ( or ''Raplamaa'') is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in the north-western part of the country and borders Järva County to the east, Pärnu County to the south, Lääne County to the west, and Harju County to ...
in northwestern
Estonia
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...
. Between 1991 and 2017 (until the administrative reform of Estonian local governments) the village was located in
Raikküla Parish.
Geologist and paleontologist
Alexander Keyserling
Alexander Friedrich Michael Lebrecht Nikolaus Arthur Graf von Keyserling (15 August 1815 – 8 May 1891) was a Baltic German geologist and paleontologist from the Keyserlingk family of Baltic German nobility.
Career
Alexander von Keyse ...
(1815–1891) lived in Raikküla Manor since 1847.
Anton Raadik, the most famous Estonian born Middleweight boxer of the 1940s and 1950s was born in Raikküla.
Raikküla is the location of Luuka
pig farm
Pig farming, pork farming, pig production or hog farming is the raising and breeding of domestic pigs as livestock, and is a branch of animal husbandry. Pigs are farmed principally for food (e.g. pork: bacon, ham, gammon) and skins.
Pigs a ...
that accommodates 8,470 pigs. It is owned by OÜ Raikküla Seakasvatus and produces pigs for
Rakvere Lihakombinaat.
References
Villages in Rapla County
Kreis Harrien
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