Alavere
 
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Alavere (German Allafer ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian district of Harju . It belongs to the rural community of Anija . Alavere has 421 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2006).
Alavere was first mentioned in 1241 in the Liber Census Daniæ of the Danish King Waldemar II . The village of Alavere was built around the manor of Allafer ( Alavere mõis ) in what was then the parish of Kosch . It was founded around 1620.
After numerous changes of ownership, the manor came into the possession of the German-Baltic Löwenstern family in 1772, the Ungern-Sternberg family in 1831 and the von der Pahlen family in 1907. Baron Gregor von Ungern-Sternberg had the manor house built in the neo-renaissance style in 1852 . It was set on fire and badly damaged during the Russian Revolution of 1905 , but was subsequently rebuilt. After Estonian independence, the owner sold the manor and manor house, which was then vacant. In 1938 the manor house was demolished and the stones were sold as building material.
As early as 1832 a school was founded in Allafer (today: Alavere), at which the Estonian writer Jakob Mändmets taught from 1892 to 1902 . During the Soviet period, Alavere was the center of a sovkhoz .
Web links
- Alavere Manor (Estonian)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 59 ° 15 ' N , 25 ° 20' E