Varbola

59 ° 2 ′ 23 ″ N , 24 ° 30 ′ 38 ″ E

Estonian fortress of the 10th-13th centuries. In 1211 it was besieged by the troops of the Novgorod prince Mstislav Mstislavich, in Russian chronicles it received the name "Vorob'inyj nos" ("Sparrow nose"), in German chronicles - Varbola. The inhabitants bought off Mstislav, but soon the crusaders, first German knights, then Danish ones, attacked Varbola (in 1212). The townspeople accepted the terms of the Order of the Swordsmen, were baptized, and handed over part of the fortress to the knights (the Danish king was considered the owner of the land in Varbola). This allowed the fortress to survive; it existed as an Estonian settlement until the 14th century, when it became a center of resistance in 1343 during the St. George. After the suppression of the uprising, the settlement fell into decay, the territory of the settlement was used in the 16th-17th centuries like a rural cemetery. Today the castle mound is located near the Rapla-Varbola road in the village of Põlli (Rapla maakond).

Tags: castles and fortresses, 13 century, 14 century, Teutonic Order (Livonia), The paths of the Teutonic knights: Livonia in the 13th century