58.259045, 22.500185
GPS: 58° 15' 33" N, 22° 30' 1" E
Under the many grout layers walled up windows and doors hid. The weight house was finished in 1663 but it was erected on the walls of an even earlier building there. When Kuressaare burned in the Great Nordic War the weight house was one of the very few that didn't. It accommodated the guard of the town after that and a post station, the first privately owned telephone exchange center and some shops after that and houses a café now.
In 1925, as many as 9 windmills were standing on the top of Windmill Mountain. Five of them, having survived until today, also give a powerful impression. Four out of the five Angla windmills are typical trestle windmills, characteristic of Island Saare...
Although a steady ship connection between Saaremaa and the main land was set already in the 17th century and the ice bridge helped out in winter the connection still depended on the weather. Having been built from the both ends the dam was finished in 1...
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