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Diena 2.

9 km

Haapsalu–Rohuküla–ferry to Vormsi 

Praktinė informacija

  • Driving distance Haapsalu–Rohuküla harbour:  ~ 9 km
  • Opening hours and ticket information for Railway and Communication Museum in Haapsalu salm.ee. Guided tours should be booked in advance. 
  • It is recommended to book tickets for the ferry from Rohuküla harbour to Vormsi in advance. Bookings and timetables veeteed.com. It is possible to leave cars in Rohukula harbour and explore Vormsi Island on foot or by bicycle. 
  • Overnight stay is possible in Vormsi or you can come back to Haapsalu.

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Haapsalu Tourist Information Centre
Haapsalu's Tourist Information Centre is on the main road in the centre of the town, in a newly renovated building. It offers maps of the local area and brochures about the town, Lääne County and other parts of Estonia. There is also a wide range of souvenirs to choose from and you can buy tickets to local cultural events via Piletilevi. Haapsalu is primarily known as a resort town. It is famous for its mud therapy and for its unique lace scarves. Information about all of this and more is available from Haapsalu Tourist Information Centre.
Hapsalu geležinkelių ir susisiekimo muziejus

This museum is housed in a train station built in the early 20th century to service the railway line connecting to the resort in Haapsalu.

Opened in 1997, the museum showcases the one-and-a-half centuries of development of Estonian railways and mediums of communication. Besides decommissioned locomotives, the museum displays an affable station master and an Ericsson Skeleton Type telephone and invites visitors to the station's post office.

The outdoor exhibition also displays a World War II steam locomotive 52 3368. 

The steam locomotive 52 3368, initially numbered 16494, was completed in April 1943 in Munich at the Krauss-Maffei Works and then transported to Austria, the Bruck an der Mur depot of the Villach division. The Hungarian State Railways (MAV) rented the locomotive and on  June 7, 1945, it was captured by the Red Army. When the Hungarian-Romanian border was altered, locomotive 52 3368 was given to the Romanian railway (CFR). In August 1950, at the CFR Iași Works the locomotive was converted to broad gauge (5 ft) and given to the Soviet Union, where it operated at the Kotovsk and Vapnyarka depot of the Odessa Railway from October 1950 to 1956. After that, the Ministry of Transportation of the USSR kept it in the strategic reserve. On  August 26, 1957, the locomotive TE-3368 (ТЭ-3368, the class 52 was renamed as TE in 1952) arrived at the Valga locomotive base. There the loco got another tender (so-called Wannentender), built in 1943 by Borsig Works in Berlin and formerly belonging to locomotive TE-450. It could carry 32 m3 of water and 10 tonnes of fuel. The locomotive stayed in Valga (from 1961 to 1968 shortly in Tartu) until the base was closed in 1997. From 1950 to 1985, its kilometrage as a broad-gauge locomotive was 463,216 kms. On  May 8, 1998, the steam locomotive was delivered to Haapsalu to be exhibited at the Railway Museum.

The class 52 war locomotive was designed in a hurry in June 1942 on request of the Reich´s Ministry of Armaments and War Production in the example of the class 50 locomotive. The 2-10-0 type engine had a power of about 1,500 hp and a maximum speed of 80 km/h. It had a simplified and light design (15-ton axle load) with an intended life-span of 5 years. From 1942 to 1945, a total of 6,295 locomotives of that class were built in 14 factories across Europe. After World War II, the class 52 locomotives had spread all over Europe, from Norway to Turkey and from Belgium to the Soviet Union. There were over 2,000 locomotives in the USSR – the exact number remains unknown, as the locomotives were subject to different authorities, including security authorities. In Estonia, the class 52 steam locomotives ran first on standard-gauge (1,435 mm) lines in 1943–44. Since 1953, when they replaced the American class ShA war locomotives (the Shariks) in Estonian freight traffic, 138 class TE (52) regauged locos have been here. By 1991, only one remained in Estonia – the TE-3368.

Hullo border outpost

This outpost is situated in Hullo on the island of Vormsi. It was the last outpost to be built on Vormsi, completed in spring 1985. Characteristic of the confusion that reigned during the Soviet era, the Far North Outpost was constructed using stock building plans: most of the complex is under one roof. It was built by soon-to-be-demobbed conscripts, who were commonly put to such use. The completed building was home to the 17th Border Outpost of the 106th Red Banner Border Guard Squad. They did not have the use of it for long, however, as it was taken over by the Estonian Border Guard in late 1992. The outpost includes a full-sized basketball court and a cinema with balconies. It is also unique for having its sentry post on top of its heating plant chimney, with a staircase winding around it. The property was divided up and privatised by the Ministry of the Interior in 2008. Part of the former outpost site has since been turned into residential land. 

 

 

Vormsio Laisvės kovų paminklas

This monument is a granite boulder standing 2.5 metres high whose front side is polished. It is situated by the western gate of the church yard in Hullo, under some pine trees. The monument was unveiled in 1929, with the date engraved into the rock. This is one of the few monuments to the War of Independence to have survived the Soviet occupation. The fact that the monument is in Swedish and does not have the years 1918-1920 inscribed on it may have helped in this regard. The monument reads: "The inhabitants of the island erected this rock in 1929 in honour of freedom fighters". It is mounted on a stone base. The monument is fenced in by stone bollards with chains.

 

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Rumpo Mäe Farm
The Rumpo Mäe Farm is located in the Village of Rumpo on the Island of Vormsi. The farm, on the beautiful Bay of Hullo, offers you peace and quiet. It is the perfect place for a family vacation or organizing seminars or camps. Nature and culture lovers will enjoy the rest. Accommodations are provided in three thatched-roof houses. A campground is nearby. Catering, seminar rooms, hiking, tour guide services, boat and bicycle rentals and sailboat rides are also available.

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Rumpo Mäe Farm
The Rumpo Mäe Farm is located in the Village of Rumpo on the Island of Vormsi. The farm, on the beautiful Bay of Hullo, offers you peace and quiet. It is the perfect place for a family vacation or organizing seminars or camps. Nature and culture lovers will enjoy the rest. Accommodations are provided in three thatched-roof houses. A campground is nearby. Catering, seminar rooms, hiking, tour guide services, boat and bicycle rentals and sailboat rides are also available.