The history of Allika Farm

Plan ERA.T-3.22.1281 names Piiritusevabriku nr A‑11, with an area of 10.320 hectares. Four building marks already appear in the farmyard.

This is the most precise historical reference point for the present place. Its archival title also states that the parcel was formed from Viru‑Maidla lands transferred to the state under the Land Act.

A‑11 alone is not enough: Maidla also had another A‑11, Keskvälja, with a different kinnistu number. Every conclusion here therefore applies only to Piiritusevabriku + A‑11 + kinnistu 12526 + the 1932 plan.

The marks on the plan cannot, without a separate survey, identify each present building as the same structure.

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Official maps mark a building at the same point in 1930, 1935, 1948, 1961, 1968 and 1973. This reliably shows a continuous built farmyard.

The earliest inspected 1896 sheet is too small-scale to read this particular farmyard reliably, so it is not used as evidence for a building date or parcel boundary.

Ehitisregister lists first-use years for several objects: 1923 for a barn-granary, 1924 for the dwelling, 1925 for a stone well and 1980 for a shed. These are not automatically physical construction years: where original documentation is absent, the register can contain an estimated date.

A working hypothesis is that part of the material setting may date to the interwar period. Confirmation needs records that identify individual present structures, not merely the farmyard point.

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Oandu supplies an important setting: in the early eighteenth century the area was associated with Mäetaguse; Oandu asundus formed in the 1920s and village status was fixed in 1977.

This helps us search through changing administrative and local names, but it does not identify an owner or resident of a particular A‑11. In the same way, archival records for Maidla piiritusevabrik are a separate economic line: they do not prove that the distillery stood in the present farmyard.

Sources contain homonymous Allika places and separate personal entries. Without a direct link to Oandu, Piiritusevabriku A‑11 or kinnistu 12526, they are not published as this farm’s biography.

That is why Allika’s history remains an open inquiry: new material is added only when we can state both what it establishes and what it does not.

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The 1932 plan shows Piiritusevabriku A‑11 and neighbouring Teekalda A‑10 as separate parcels. Three years later, other plans explicitly name Allika A‑10 / kinnistu 2067.

This is an important, plain correction to the map of the place. The 1932 sheet does not say Allika: beside A‑11 it reads Teekalda A‑10. A‑11 has its own boundary and a farmyard with four building outlines by the Purtse.

Two plans certified on 24 May 1935 name Allika nr. A10 / kinnistu nr. 2067. One adds a strip from Maidla manor land; the other returns a different strip. We can therefore date the documented name Allika A‑10 no later than that day, and see that its boundary was being adjusted.

A shared number does not merge the records. Until a document directly connects Teekalda A‑10, Allika A‑10 and Piiritusevabriku A‑11, the neighbouring parcels remain separate historical lines.

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Rahvusarhiiv lists Allika talu nr. 10 and Piiritusevabriku krunt nr. 11 as different archival units, with different identifiers and titles.

Both catalogue cards sit in the same administrative branch of state lease farms: Virumaa, Maidla vald, Maidla mõis. That makes the branch useful for further research, but it does not make the two records one farmyard.

The open cards contain no file pages, boundaries, dates, rights holder or resident. They cannot identify Allika talu nr. 10 as Allika A‑10 / 2067, nor can they show that A‑11 never later received another name.

This does not end the history; it keeps it from a convenient fiction. The three lines remain side by side until a primary record connects them directly.

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