Piknikukoht - Setogiid

Kasiino

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Oled jõudnud Mustoja silla piknikukohta. Siin suubub Mustoja Õrsava järve.

Selles peatuskohas tutvume lähemalt Põhjalaagri kasiino ehk laagrikoduga. Kasiino oli Põhjalaagri kõige suurem ja kesksem hoone, tõeline laagri süda. See oli koht, kus kaitseväelased ja nende perekonnaliikmed veetsid vaba aega. Kasiinol oli kaks korrust, alumisel korrusel asus suur saal näitelava ja seda teenindavate vajalike kõrvalruumidega, puhvet, allohvitseride ja sõdurite söögi- ja lugemistoad. Teisel korrusel asusid koduvanema, juuksuri, puhvetipidaja, meeskonna- ja võõrastetoad, sh poissmeestest ohvitseride korterid. Maja ees oli kena lilledega kaunistatud terrass, kus „auvahtidena“ seisid kaks 1870. aasta mudeli järgi ehitatud kerget kahurit. Õhtuti hoolitses meeleolu eest orkester. Ohvitserid pidid puhvetist oma raha eest süüa ostma. Kasiino oli ka see koht, kus võõrustati kõrgeid külalisi. Kasiino hävis tulekahjus 1960. aastate lõpus.

The Casino

In English

You have reached the Mustoja Bridge picnic area. Here the Mustoja stream flows into Lake Õrsava.

At this stop we take a closer look at the Northern Camp casino, also known as the Soldier’s Home. The casino was the largest and most central building of the Northern Camp — the true heart of the camp — where soldiers and their family members spent their leisure time.

The building had two floors. On the ground floor there was a large hall with a stage and the necessary backstage rooms, a buffet, and dining and reading rooms for non-commissioned officers and soldiers. Upstairs were rooms for the superintendent, barber and buffet keeper, as well as crew and guest rooms, including apartments for bachelor officers.
In front of the building was a nice terrace decorated with flowers, where two light cannons built according to the 1870 model stood as ‘honour guards’. In the evenings, an orchestra provided the atmosphere. The officers had to buy food from the buffet with their own money. The casino also hosted high-ranking guests. The casino was destroyed in a fire in the late 1960s.