100 stories from the hiking route

1927 – new threshing barn at Rehemetsa farm in Metsanurme village is finished

Information

Topic

Village life and society work

Coordinates

Long-Lat WGS 84

Latitude: 59.26665278

Longitude: 24.66113056

L-EST 97

x: 6570004.9
y: 537703.4

Location

Peraküla-Aegviidu Hiking route

In the past, Rehemetsa farm was a tavern farm that sat next to an important winter road. Right before Christmas in 1926, the farm burnt down. As the times and construction practices had changed, the new buildings had a separate dwelling and a barn for threshing and drying grain. The drying room with the large kiln was built out of logs but the larger threshing room was built as a framed building. The threshing barn of Rehemetsa farm was the only one in the village and so, it was also used by other villagers.
In 1997, MTÜ Metsanurme was established, being one of the first registered village associations in Harju County. By now, it has operated for 20 years. The first years in action were spent on organising the village life – ground maintenance days, encouraging activism, cooperating with the rural municipality. Then, bigger projects came to works – restoring the old threshing barn of Rehemetsa farm to become a village centre, creating the hiking trail and establishing the local history museum, researching and publishing articles on local history, etc.
Also remarkable is Rännaku farm in Metsanurme that was one of the settlement farms built based on a project by architect Erika Nõva. During the first half of the 1930s, six settlement farms were granted on the meadows of the former Üksnurme manor. These new farms, along with a couple of rental farms of the former manor, formed the Metsanurme village that, unlike many other settlements of the time, has survived until today.