VOL. 2 CONTENTS 2013–2017 ESTONIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE. PRESERVATION AND CONSERVATION AND CONSERVATION PRESERVATION HERITAGE. CULTURAL 2 ESTONIAN VOL. 2013–2017 ESTONIAN PREFACE CULTURAL HERITAGEStylistic restoration of an Art Nouveau villa Timo Aava, Productive controversy Siim Raie 2 Eero Kangor and Claudia Valge 85 St Paul’s Church in Tartu – made in Finland ANNIVERSARIESPRESERVATION ANDEgle CONSERVATION Tamm 88 The 1666 Conservation Act Residence at Lõuna 2a, Pärnu Jaak Huimerind 92 Riin Alatalu and Anneli Randla 4 House of Culture in Kohtla-Järve Tallinn Old Town conservation area 50 Riin Alatalu 6 Kalle Merilai and Jüri Moor 96 Cultural heritage year 2013 Riin Alatalu 8 How to restore Soviet modernist architecture? Maris Mändel and Kaarel Truu 98 LAND AND SEA One of the most striking modernist buildings Changing maritime and coastal culture in Estonia is in Rapla Liina Jänes 105 Maili Roio and Triin Talk 14 Symbols in dialogue: Black and pink in Viljandi Shipwrecks from underground Kadriorg Karin Paulus 108 Maili Roio, Lembi Lõugas, Alar Läänelaid and Erki Russow 19 Rakvere Theatre Cinema Kaarel Truu 110 Suur Tõll 100 Mihkel Karu 23 Treasure hunters with metal detectors and INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE archaeological heritage Nele Kangert 29 Should industrial heritage be restored or reconstructed? Sword from Ukraine Nele Kangert and Linda Lainvoo 32 Henry Kuningas 112 Ancient Estonian strongholds and heritage conservation Creative House, the first restored building in the Ulla Kadakas and Toomas Tamla 33 renewed Noblessner shipyard Artur Ümar 115 The past and present of sacred natural sites Hair standing up! A new life of the Tallinn power plant Maria Smirnova and Martti Veldi 36 Artur Ümar 116 Doctoral thesis: Art and nature in parks Urve Sinijärv 38 From the Tallinn power plant to a Creative Hub Grand Prix of Europa Nostra awarded to Estonia again Katrin Etverk 118 Elo Lutsepp 42 Rotermann elevator building Artur Ümar 121 Preservation of wooden smock mills through new uses BUILT HERITAGE Dan Lukas 126 From ruins to fortress: Restoration work in Kuressaare Cultural heritage versus nature conservation fortress in 2010–2015 Tõnu Sepp 44 Henry Kuningas 129 Restoration of medieval barns in Sauna Street, Tallinn Tiina Linna 48 ART: RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION Medieval heat storage hypocausts in Tallinn Old Town First successful remounting of a Soviet era mural Kaarel Truu 50 Hilkka Hiiop, Helen Volber and Johanna Lamp 134 Five years in the life of a medieval church The artist’s fingerprintHilkka Hiiop 139 Juhan Kilumets and Anneli Randla 53 New finds of murals and other interior decorations The beauty of a cultural temple brought to light again in churches, manors and town houses Silja Konsa 56 Anneli Randla 143 The revival of the Kotland manor Mihkel Koppel, The need and methods of studying historical Rita Peirumaa and Indrek Raudne 60 wallpapers in Estonia Kadri Kallaste and Viljar Vissel 147 Keila-Joa manor Allan Strus 65 Mysterious glazed tile stove Artur Ümar 152 Heritage conservation as the art of compromise From devastation to cooperation Linda Lainvoo 154 Triin Talk 72 Natural sciences and information technology: Urbaltisch houses Oliver Orro 75 Rode Altarpiece in Close-Up Hilkka Hiiop 157 Integrated architectural paint research Diana Haapsal, Christian Ackermann – the Arrogant and Talented Kätlin Kaganovitš, Claudia Valge and Pille Vilgota 83 Phidias from Tallinn Tiina-Mall Kreem 160 ANNIVERSARIES / LAND AND SEA / BUILT HERITAGE 1 INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE / ART: RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION ESTONIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE 2013–2017 CONTENTS ART: RESEARCH AND CONSERVATION Editorsin-chief: ANNELI RANDLA AUTHORS (1) (2) Editorial Board: BORIS DUBOVIK, LILIAN HANSAR, TIMO AAVA, senior specialist (suburbs), Tallinn Urban Planning HILKKA HIIOP, MART KESKKÜLA, JUHAN Department (TUPD) KILUMETS, ILME MÄESALU, OLIVER ORRO, RIIN ALATALU, associate professor, Department of Cultural Heritage CAROLINPREFACE PIHLAP, SIIM RAIE, ANNELI RANDLA, and Conservation (DCC), Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA) ANDREIStylistic DVORJANINOV, restoration of board an Art member, Nouveau National villa Heritage Timo Aava, TÕNUProductive SEPP, OLEV controversy SUUDER, Siim TRIINRaie TALK, LEELE 2 Foundation OÜ VÄLJA KATRINEero Kangor ETVERK, and architect, Claudia AB Valge Katrin Etverk OÜ 85 Translated by KADRI AGARMAA, ANNELI RANDLA, DIANASt Paul’s HAAPSAL, Church senior in Tartu specialist – made (suburbs), in Finland TUPD ANNIVERSARIES HILKKAEgle Tamm HIIOP, professor, DCC, EAA 88 TIINA RANDVIIR, PEETER TAMMISTO, KRISTJAN JAAK HUIMERIND, architect, AB Studio Paralleel OÜ The 1666 Conservation Act Residence at Lõuna 2a, Pärnu Jaak Huimerind 92 TEDER, MARCUS TUROVSKI, MARIS VEEREMÄE LIINA JÄNES, adviser (cultural heritage), Ministry of Culture Riin Alatalu and Anneli Randla 4 and ALIAS TÕLKEAGENTUUR OÜ ULLAHouse KADAKAS, of Culture inspector in Kohtla-Järve general (archaeology), National Tallinn Old Town conservation area 50 Riin Alatalu 6 HeritageKalle MerilaiBoard (NHB) and Jüri Moor 96 Copy editing by RICHARD ADANG KÄTLIN KAGANOVITŠ, conservator, Ruum ja Lugu OÜ Cultural heritage year 2013 Riin Alatalu 8 How to restore Soviet modernist architecture? Graphic design and layout by TUULI AULE KADRI KALLASTE, conservator, Deutsches Tapetenmuseum 98 Published by NATIONAL HERITAGE BOARD, NELEMaris KANGERT Mändel ,and senior Kaarel inspector Truu (archaeology), NHB LAND AND SEA EEROOne KANGOR of the most, senior striking specialist modernist (art), TUPD buildings TALLINN URBAN PLANNING DEPARTMENT, MIHKEL KARU, researcher, Estonian Maritime Museum Changing maritime and coastal culture in Estonia is in Rapla Liina Jänes 105 DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL HERITAGE AND JUHAN KILUMETS, art historian, Rändmeister OÜ Symbols in dialogue: Black and pink in Viljandi CONSERVATIONMaili Roio and Triin AT THETalk ESTONIAN ACADEMY 14 SILJA KONSA, senior inspector (Harju County), NHB Shipwrecks from underground Kadriorg MIHKELKarin Paulus KOPPEL, architect, Koppel Koppel Arhitektid OÜ 108 OF ARTS TIINA-MALL KREEM, curator, Art Museum of Estonia Maili Roio, Lembi Lõugas, Alar Läänelaid and Erki Russow 19 Rakvere Theatre Cinema Kaarel Truu 110 Supported by MINISTRY OF CULTURE HENRY KUNINGAS, senior specialist (Tallinn Old Town), TUPD Suur Tõll 100 Mihkel Karu 23 LINDA LAINVOO, inspector general (art), NHB Treasure hunters with metal detectors and JOHANNA LAMP, conservator, Art Museum of Estonia Front cover: Energy Discovery Centre, the former TIINAINDUSTRIAL LINNA, architect, T-Linnaprojekt HERITAGE archaeological heritage Nele Kangert 29 Tallinn power plant. Photo by Peeter Säre DANShould LUKAS, industrial adviser (architecture), heritage be NHB restored or reconstructed? Sword from Ukraine Nele Kangert and Linda Lainvoo 32 Tallinn Old Town conservation area. ELOHenry LUTSEPP, Kuningas head of the Centre of Rural Architecture, 112 Estonian Open Air Museum (EOAM) Ancient Estonian strongholds and heritage conservation Creative House, the first restored building in the Photo by Peeter Säre 3 LEMBI LÕUGAS, senior researcher, Archaeological Research Ulla Kadakas and Toomas Tamla 33 renewed Noblessner shipyard Artur Ümar 115 Soontagana hillfort. Photo by Peeter Säre 13 Collection, Tallinn University (3) (4) The past and present of sacred natural sites Domed hall of the Vääna manor. Photo by ALARHair LÄÄNELAID, standing up! dendrochronologist, A new life of the Department Tallinn ofpower Geography, plant Tartu University Maria Smirnova and Martti Veldi 36 Artur Ümar 116 Peeter Säre 43 KALLE MERILAI, senior inspector (Ida-Viru County), NHB Doctoral thesis: Art and nature in parks Urve Sinijärv 38 Endangered Saesaare dam on Ahja River. JÜRIFrom MOOR, the Tallinn project manager, power OÜplant General to a CreativeEngineering Hub Grand Prix of Europa Nostra awarded to Estonia again Photo by Leele Välja 111 MARISKatrin MÄNDEL, Etverk researcher, DCC, EAA 118 Elo Lutsepp 42 OLIVERRotermann ORRO, elevatorlecturer, DCC, building EAA Artur Ümar 121 Scaffolding around the altarpiece by Christian KARIN PAULUS, art critic Ackermann in Tallinn Cathedral. Photo by RITAPreservation PEIRUMAA ,of senior wooden inspector smock (Saare mills County), through NHB new uses PeeterBUILT Säre HERITAGE 133 SIIMDan RAIE Lukas, Director General, NHB 126 ANNELICultural RANDLA, heritage senior versus researcher, nature DCC, conservation EAA From ruins to fortress: Restoration work in Kuressaare INDREK RAUDNE, owner of Kotland manor fortress in 2010–2015 Tõnu Sepp 44 MAILIHenry ROIO, Kuningas senior inspector (underwater heritage), NHB 129 © NATIONALRestoration HERITAGEof medieval barnsBOARD, in Sauna TALLINN Street, URBAN Tallinn ERKI RUSSOW, senior researcher, Institute of History, Archaeology and Art History, Tallinn University PLANNINGTiina Linna DEPARTMENT, DEPARTMENT OF 48 TÕNUART: SEPP, RESEARCH historian, Muinassepp AND OÜ CONSERVATION CULTURALMedieval HERITAGEheat storage ANDhypocausts CONSERVATION in Tallinn Old AT Town URVEFirst SINIJ successful ÄRV, vice-rector remounting (research), of a EAA Soviet era mural (5) (6) THEKaarel ESTONIAN Truu ACADEMY OF ARTS 2017 50 MARIAHilkka SMIRNOVA Hiiop, Helen, project Volber coordinator and Johanna (sacred Lamp natural sites), NHB 134 ALLAN STRUS, architect, AB Allan Strus OÜ Five years in the life of a medieval church TRIINThe TALK, artist’s inspector fingerprint generalHilkka (architecture), Hiiop NHB 139 PrintedJuhan by Kilumets TALLINNA and Anneli RAAMATUTRÜKIKOJA Randla OÜ 53 TOOMASNew finds TAMLA, of archaeologistmurals and other interior decorations The beauty of a cultural