EST Kohtla-Nõmmel on inimesed elanud-toimetanud juba pea paar tuhat aastat. Teise maailasõja ajal käis siin suur pauk kui taganevad punaväelased õlitehase õhku lasid. Hiljem olid siin sakslaste tankidepoo ja remonditöökoda, formeeriskeskus ja koonduslaager. Kui rinne oli kolmandat korda Kohtla-Nõmmest üle käinud, rajasid siia vangilaagri venelased. See saksa sõjavangide laager asus Kohtla-Nõmmel asulast läänes läbi pargi, kunagise kummiremonditehase juures, kaevandusest Tallinn-Peterburi raudtee poole. Seal asus Olivere nimeline jaamahoone. Pärast vangilaagrit elasid barakkides kaevurid, nende hulgas oli palju noori. Barakid lammutati alles 1960-aastate lõpul - 1970-aastate alguses kui sealsed elanikud said korterid mujale.
Needsamad laagri noored käisidki pargis väiksel tantsuplatsil tantsu löömas. Mõnel usinamal tantsijannal kulus kuuldavasti kolm paari tenniseid suve jooksul. Tantsiti nii valssi, foksi, polkat kui ka jenkat.
Argiõhtutel mängisid tantsuks laagri lõõtsamängijad. Nädalavahetustel mängis pilli välenäpp Jaamast, temal oli pill oli suurem ja kogemusi rohkem.
Võta oma pliiats kaasa!
ENG The dance square of the youth Kohtla-Nõmme has been populated for more than two thousand years. During the WWII, there was a big explosion as the
retreating Red army destroyed the local oil factory. Later here were a Germans tank depot, military workshops and
a concentration camp. As the front had passed through Kohtla-Nõmme for the third time, the russians established
a prison camp here. This camp built for the german prisoners was situated west from the Kohtla-Nõmme settlement and the
surrounding park, near the former rubber repair workshop and a mine. The Tallinn-St. Petersburg railway is also not far
away from the settlement. By the camp, there was a station building called Olivere. After the prison camp stopped being,
miners with a number of young people started living in the barracks. These barracks were not taken down until the beginning
of the 1970s.
The young people living in the barracks used to go dancing every night at this small square in the park. The rumour says
that some of the most devoted dancing girls wore out three pairs of sneakers during one summer. The most popular
dance forms at that time and place were walz, foxtrot, jenkka and polka. On working day evenings the accordion players
from the barracks used to accompany the dancers with their playing. On weekends, a virtuoso accordionist with a bigger
instrument from the neighbouring village Jaama came in to entertain the dancers.
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