Kärdla city park

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Distance: 0.36 mi
Elevation gain: 3 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 3 ft
Max elevation: 42 ft
TrailRank: 23
Min elevation: 42 ft
Trail type: One Way

Time: 8 minutes
Coordinates: 113
Uploaded: January 28, 2021
Recorded: November 2020

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near Kärdla, Hiiumaa (Estonia nutome)

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Itinerary description

The City Park is about 5.2 ha. It’s a peaceful and quiet park where you can find the Kärdla Church, a choir stand and a playground for kids. Kärdla song festival grounds are also located in the park. The first part of the park was established in the 1860s, after the church was finished in a spot called Kirikupõllu (Church field). More trees were planted at the beginning of the 20th century. The “youngest” part of the park was planted in the 1970s. The main species of trees include the native ones like black alder, common ash, maple and linden, but there are also spruces, oaks, willow elms, and bushes like hazel, hawthorn, lilac and snowberry etc. All in all, there are more than 30 species of trees and bushes in the park.
There is no marked trail, but one can easily find the way through the park. No marked parking spot for persons with disabilities.

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Parking lot

Kärdla church

The church of Kärdla was dedicated to John the Baptist and was constructed in 1863. It is the third church in Kärdla. The barons of Emmaste, Suuremõisa and Putkaste were the initiators of the idea to build the church and gave the baron of Kärdla 2000 roubles for that purpose. The workers of the cloth factory made voluntary donations and a part of the money for the construction was taken from the workers wages. It is an architecturally harmonic, typical hall church with an “open” bell tower crowning the western facade (unique in Estonia). The architecture of the stylish and beautiful church in Kärdla is simple and ascetic. This architectural monument is one of the most distinguished working-class churches.

Monument to the Hiiumaa Victims of World War II

A memorial to the people of Hiiumaa who died in the Second World War has been erected in front of Kärdla Church. The memorial depicts a young man returning from the war sitting and looking at his home village. On his copper are memorial plaques with the names of his comrades on the battlefields. These men never got back to their homes - their wives, mothers…

Children's playground

Kärdla song festival ground

The first song festival in Hiiumaa took place in 1867 in Leigri village in the yard of Murru pub. There is evidence of a children’s party in Lepakopil in Kärdla already from 1874. In 1926 the first national song festival was held in Kärdla. This was conducted by Tuudur Vettik, a composer, choral conductor and music teacher who later became one of the leaders of the Estonian national song festivals.

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