Janeda
Jäneda (German Jendel or Jenneda ) is a village in the Estonian district of Lääne-Viru .
Jäneda belongs to the municipality of Tapa and is 68 km from Tallinn . The village has 448 inhabitants (as of 2006).
Jäneda was first mentioned in 1353 (as Jendel) when the Bishop of Reval (today: Tallinn) acquired the area. Is aware of the Baltic German manor house, the last of the family of Benckendorff belonged. The current building dates from the construction phase 1913–1915.
The last landowner was Baroness Maria Zakrewskaja-Benckendorff-Budberg . During a life full of amorous adventures, she maintained close connections with various well-known writers, politicians and spies, including Robert Bruce Lockhart , Maxim Gorki and HG Wells . The latter wrote the third volume of his memoirs in Jäneda in 1934.
In 1921 the first Estonian agricultural school was established in Jäneda, where the later Estonian heads of state Tõnis Kint and Arnold Rüütel also studied.
The Jäneda Museum, which has collected extensive materials on history, is particularly worth seeing. The studio of the Estonian musician and composer Urmas Sisask is housed in the so-called star tower as a planetarium and concert room.
Web links
- Jäneda website (Estonian)
- Jäneda Manor
- Star tower of Jäneda ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English and German)
- Culture magazine Sirp about Maria-Zakrewskaja-Benckendorff-Budberg ( Memento from July 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (Estonian)
Coordinates: 59 ° 15 ' N , 25 ° 42' E