Location: Seminari väljak, Võru linn, Võrumaa, 65608
The memorial is on the Seminari square in Võru and is dedicated to the Võru people who perished in the ferry disaster on the stormy night of 28th of September 1994. The memorial was founded in 1996 by famous Estonian sculptor Mati Karmin.
Memorial stone dedicated to St. Nicholas Church, a medieval town church of the 13thC, was dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of the most important professions of that day: those of seafarers, merchants and fishermen. The black cross kept in the c...
It was already in 1759, the dying year of Schiller, that frau Elisabeth Dorothea von
Gersdorf had a statue erected for him. However the nine meters high statue along with
the surrounding park faded after her death. Schiller was most admired in the...