Kolga (Estonia)
Kolga ( German Kolk ) is a village in the rural municipality of Kuusalu in the Estonian district of Harju . Kolga has 519 inhabitants (January 1, 2007).
Kolga was first mentioned in 1241 under the name Põdratut . In 1488 it was named Purckell . From the year 1290 a settlement place for monks under the name villa Kolco has been handed down. The estate belonged to the Roma of the Cistercian monastery on the island of Gotland until 1519 , before it became the property of the Danish crown. The medieval manor house was probably heavily fortified, but was largely destroyed in the Livonian War . From 1558 it belonged temporarily to the Danish governor Christoph von Münchhausen . It then fell to the Russian army, then from 1581 as a gift from the Swedish king to the nobleman Pontus de la Gardie . At the end of the 17th century it passed to the Stenbock family .
In 1626 the remains of the Cistercian settlement were removed. A short time later, construction work began on the manor . In 1642 the forerunner of today's stone manor house was built. It was rebuilt in the baroque style from 1765 to 1768 . The magnificent mansion got its current classical appearance in the 1820s, when the side wings were reinforced and an additional floor was added. The entrance area is characterized by a representative portico made up of six grouped columns . From the 18th century onwards, numerous farm buildings were added.
With the occupation of Estonia in 1940 , the Soviet Union expropriated the Stenbock family. The estate became the property of the Soviet state. In 1993, after regaining national independence, the Estonian state returned the property to the family, who sold it after a few years. Much of the manor house is in poor structural condition, but repairs have started.
Web links
- Full description (Estonian)
- Kolga Manor (Estonian)
literature
- Sabine Bock : Manor houses in Estonia | Mõisad Eestis. A brief overview of the development of their forms and their history. Lühike ülevaade ajaloost ja ehitusvormide arengust. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2020, ISBN 978-3-944033-29-7 , pp. 18/19, 42–48, 70–73 [1]
Coordinates: 59 ° 30 ' N , 25 ° 37' E