Aruküla (Koeru)
Coordinates: 58 ° 57 ' N , 26 ° 0' E
Aruküla (German Arroküll ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Koeru in Järva County . It has 61 inhabitants (as of 2008).
The place was first mentioned in the first half of the 17th century under the name Arrenküll . It is located north of the town of Paide ( Weißenstein ).
Aruküla Manor
The Aruküla estate initially belonged to the Gerstenberg family before it was owned by the Swedish general Lennart Torstensson (1603-1651) from 1635 to 1651 . Then the estate belonged to his son, the Swedish statesman Anders Torstenson (1641–1686) until 1669 .
A stone mansion was built between 1782 and 1789. After a fire at the beginning of the 19th century, the construction of a classical manor house was completed in 1810 . Karl Knorring (1773–1841), one of the most famous translators of Russian literature of the time, lived there from 1812 to 1819 . Among other things, his translation of Alexander Griboyedov's comedy Mind Creates Suffering became famous . His wife, the writer Sophie Tieck (sister of Ludwig Tieck ), wrote some of her works in Aruküla. In Evremont , she recorded places and landscapes in literary terms.
In 1820, the Russian general Count Karl Wilhelm von Toll , who had distinguished himself in campaigns in Switzerland , Italy and against Napoleon , bought the Aruküla estate. Lev Tolstoy erected a literary monument to Karl von Toll in War and Peace . The neo-Gothic grave chapel of the family from the second half of the 19th century is located near the manor house .
In the time of Karl von Toll, the mansion was rebuilt in the so-called Petersburg Empire style and received its current appearance. The two-storey mansion made of limestone is adorned by a late classicist facade with a mighty portico made up of four columns.
The estate was expropriated by the Estonian government in 1919 as part of the land reform . Since then there has been a school in the manor house.
Web links
- Aruküla Manor (Estonian)
- Description of the place (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Thea Karin: Estonia. Cultural and scenic diversity in a historical borderland between east and west. Cologne 1994 (= DuMont art and landscape guide ) ISBN 3-7701-2614-9 , p. 193