Liigvalla
Coordinates: 59 ° 0 ' N , 26 ° 9' E
Liigvalla (German Löwenwolde ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community of Rakke in the Lääne-Viru district . It has 130 inhabitants (as of 2000).
history
Liigvalla is about 30 kilometers from Tapa ( Taps ). The village was first mentioned in 1282 under the name Lykewalde . The Te Liwol manor has been documented since 1558 . In the Middle Ages it belonged to the Kärkna ( Falkenau ) monastery and was privately owned from the end of the 16th century. Before 1682 the estate was divided into the Lewolde and Piipe estates . Until the middle of the 19th century, the estate (with interruptions) was owned by the German Baltic von Rehbinder family .
The representative mansion in the late Baroque style was completed in 1797. It was built in place of a previous wooden building. The manor house was probably planned by the Rostock architect Johann Heinrich Bartholomäus Walter , who worked in Tartu ( Dorpat ) for some time . Walter also designed the Tartu town hall and the mansions of Salla ( Sall ), Varangu ( Wrangelshof ) and Väätsa ( Waetz ). The main floor is on the basement with vaults and a central aisle. In the middle is the hall, to which other rooms are connected.
Of the few outbuildings on the estate, the administrator's house with its baroque roof windows, which was built right next to the manor house, has been preserved. At the end of the 18th century the natural park of the estate was laid out.
The Baltic German nobleman Nikolai von Schilling, who owned the Liigvalla estate, was expropriated with the Estonian land reform of 1919. A school was then housed in the manor house. After the end of the Soviet occupation and the regaining of Estonian independence, the mansion was sold to a private individual.
Personalities
The most famous son of the place was the Estonian pedagogue Johann Jakob Nocks (1800–1890). The philologist and doctor Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (1798–1850), who was friends with Nocks, went to school in Liigvalla.
literature
- Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1. Estonia (including Northern Livonia). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Cologne, Vienna 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), p. 321 ( ISBN 3-412-07183-8 )
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Liigvalla Manor (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?SCat=15&CatID=0&ItemID=445
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 166
- ↑ http://www.mois.ee/deutsch/jarva/liigvalla.shtml