Ahja (Põlva)

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Coordinates: 58 ° 12 '  N , 27 ° 5'  E

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Ahja mansion
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Pond of the historic estate
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Grave chapel of the von Brasch family
Friedebert Tuglas Museum

Ahja (German Aya ) is a village ( Estonian alevik ) in southeast Estonia . In 2017 it was the capital of the Ahja (Ahja vald) rural community in Põlva County . Since then, Ahja has been in the Põlva municipality .

Population and location

The village has 507 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011).

The place is located 28 kilometers southeast of the second largest Estonian city Tartu , west of the Ahja River (Ahja jõgi) .

Good ahja

history

In 1553 the farm was first mentioned in a document under the name Agill . It changed hands frequently over the centuries.

In the 16th century the farm belonged to a Johann Kawer, then a Tönnis Wedwitz. From 1582 the estate belonged to the Polish state. In 1626 the Swedish Imperial Admiral Gabriel Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1586–1656) became its owner before the farm was withdrawn by the Swedish state through reduction .

In 1725, after Livonia fell to Russia in the Northern War , the Russian Tsar Peter I gave the estate to the widow of Pastor Ernst Glück (1654–1705), Christine, née. von Reutern († 1740). With her, Peter's second wife, who later became Empress Katharina (1684–1727), grew up.

From 1743 the estate belonged to the Breton Vice Admiral François Guillemot de Villebois (1681–1760), who was in Russian service . In 1715 he had married a daughter of Ernst Glück's second marriage. In 1760 his son from his first marriage, Major General Daniel Guillemot de Villebois (1711–1797), became the owner, before the farm was passed on to the Baltic German Hans Heinrich von Liphardt in 1766 and to the Russian infantry general Gotthard Johann von Knorring (1744–1825) ) fell.

In 1790 the Russian military and politician Woldemar Anton von Löwis of Menar (1741-1818) became the owner of the farm. From 1821 to 1921 the farm was owned by the German Baltic von Brasch family .

Mansion

The two-story mansion with its high hipped roof was built in 1749 in the time of François Guillemot de Villebois in the Baroque style and luxuriously designed. The plans probably came from the workshop of the architect and builder Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli (1700–1771). At the beginning of the 20th century, a historic tower was added over the entrance .

From 1929 the manor house served as Ahja’s school building. In 1997 the school moved to a modern building.

In 2007 the mansion was badly affected by a fire. It's empty today.

Outbuildings and cemetery

In the manor's 8.8 hectare park with its large pond, there were numerous outbuildings of the manor, some of which are still preserved.

About a kilometer from the manor is the cemetery of the manor. It was created in 1884 by the von Brasch family. The family burial chapel is also located there . It was built in the Art Nouveau style. In 1919, during the Estonian War of Independence , Bolshevik troops devastated the cemetery. Since 1932 it has been used again as the village cemetery.

Personalities

The Estonian writer Friedebert Tuglas (1886–1971) was born in Ahja . His father was employed on the estate as a carpenter.

Friedebert Tuglas described his childhood memories in his novel Väike Illimar from 1937. In Tuglas' honor there is a memorial stone at the place of his birth, the no longer preserved brewery on the estate.

The Friedebert Tuglas Museum has been housed in the local library building since 2005.

literature

Web links

Commons : Gut Ahja  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Estonian Statistics Office , accessed on November 21, 2016
  2. ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 228
  3. ^ German: Illimar. Childhood novel. Translated by Friedrich Schwarz. Berlin : Verlag Der Morgen 1959