Kahtla

Kahtla
Village
Country	Estonia
County	Saare County
Parish	Saaremaa Parish
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Kahtla is a village in Saaremaa Parish, Saare County, in western Estonia. ^[1]

Name

Kahtla was attested in historical sources as Cachtel in 1453, Kachtyalke in 1569–1571, Kachkill and Kachtial in 1645, and Kachtla in 1782. The name probably derives from a compound of kaks 'two' + jalg (genitive: jala) 'leg, foot', which may be either a personal name ending in jalg or a name referring to a natural feature, in which the suffix is the presumed agricultural term jalg 'foot of a hill, etc.'. ^[2]

History

Before the administrative reform of 2017, the village was in Laimjala Parish. ^[3]

Churches

Saint Basil the Great Church

Cemetery chapel

The church in Kahtla is dedicated to Saint Basil the Great and was designed by the Riga architect Heinrich Scheel. It belongs to the Orthodox Church of Estonia. ^[4] There is also a chapel in the cemetery east of the village.

References

1. "Lisa. Asustusüksuste nimistu" (PDF). haldusreform.fin.ee (in Estonian). Rahandusministeerium. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
2. "Kahtla". Dictionary of Estonian Place Names. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Instituut. Retrieved August 23, 2025.
3. "Saaremaa külad endiste valdade piires". www.saaremaa.ee (in Estonian). Archived from the original on 3 December 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
4. "Laimjala Vassilius Suure kogudus". Eesti Apostlik-Õigeusu Kirik. Orthodox Church of Estonia. Retrieved August 23, 2025.

External links

• Media related to Kahtla at Wikimedia Commons

58°24′N23°01′E / 58.400°N 23.017°E / 58.400; 23.017