Mäetaguse (Großdorf)
Coordinates: 59 ° 14 ' N , 27 ° 18' E
The large village Mäetaguse ( Estonian Mäetaguse alevik ) is located in the rural municipality of Alutaguse (until 2017 Mäetaguse ) in the Ida-Viru district ( East Wierland ) in northeast Estonia .
Location and history
Mäetaguse (German Mehntack ) has 608 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2006). The village is located 52 km southeast of the town of Rakvere ( Wesenberg ).
The 25 km long river Mäetaguse ( Mäetaguse jõgi ) has its source near Mäetaguse . It is a right tributary of the Rannapungerja River ( Rannapungerja jõgi ).
The village of Mäetaguse was first mentioned in 1241 in the Liber Census Daniæ under the name Meintacus .
Good Mäetaguse
history
In 1525 the Baltic German nobleman Peter von Tiesenhausen had his manor built in Corwentacken near Mäetaguse. The farm was mentioned as Korwendal in 1542 and was later moved to today's Mäetaguse.
In 1617 the estate was owned by Tuwe Bremen. In 1638 it passed into the possession of Fabian von Wrangel through marriage. The property then passed to the von Ungern-Sternberg family . The buildings burned down during the Great Northern War in the early 18th century.
From 1736 the farm was owned by the von Rosen family . From 1737 to 1759 the Livonian resident district administrator and deputy district marshal Otto Fabian von Rosen owned the estate. The politically influential Rosen in the Livonian knighthood was best known as a feudal advocate of serfdom and the extensive lack of rights of Estonian peasants. In 1739, at the beginning of his term in office, he was responsible for the so-called Rose Declaration . Von Rosen's writing “was the response of the Baltic knighthood to the Russian judicial college about the relationship between landlords and peasants. It stipulated that the landlord had all rights over the peasants and that the landlord was to be regarded as property, as "serfs of the lord". "Rosen's views did not go unchallenged in German Baltic circles. In 1816 serfdom was abolished in the Estonian governorate , but not until the 1860s in the entire Russian Empire .
The Decembrist Andreas von Rosen (1800–1884) came from Mäetaguse .
The last private owner of the property before it was expropriated as part of the land reform in Estonia in 1919 was Konstantin Otto von Rosen.
Mansion
Eugenius Octave von Rosen had the two-story stone mansion built in 1796 in the style of early classicism . The representative building was heavily redesigned after a fire in 1816 in the 1820s and 1890s. The balcony on the main facade also comes from the last renovation.
In the representative rooms there are still rich stucco decorations in the style of historicism , oak doors, tiled stoves and a fireplace. In the stairwell of the south wing there is a fresco depicting women with laurel wreaths and flying putti . It is a copy of the work Andrea Mantegna created in 1474 in the Palazzo Ducale of Mantua .
From 1923 to 1982 the local school was located in the manor house before a new school building could be inaugurated. The building was extensively renovated after Estonian independence was regained in the 1990s. Today the municipal administration is housed on the ground floor of the manor house. The first floor serves as a concert hall.
Outbuildings
A little outside in the cemetery is the neo-Gothic burial chapel of the von Rosen family. The wooden building is now in a state of disrepair.
Ten outbuildings of the farm, mainly two storage houses, the dairy and the manager's house, are well preserved. A hotel has been located in the coach house since 2006. The former schnapps distillery, a six-column stone building reminiscent of a temple in ancient Greece, now serves as the community's cultural center. The well-preserved ten hectare park with its oak trees is well worth seeing.
In 1936 a small memorial was erected for the Baltic regiment that fought against Soviet Russia in the Estonian War of Independence . It miraculously survived the Soviet occupation of Estonia unscathed.
Web links
- Full description (Estonian)
- Gut Mäetaguse (Estonian)
- History and pictures of the estate
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.manor.ee/?id=958&manor_id=17
- ↑ 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), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 347.
- ↑ http://www.moisahotell.ee/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56
- ^ Reichsjustiz-Collegium for Liv and Estonian matters
- ^ 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. 172
- ↑ http://www.eestigiid.ee/?SCat=15&CatID=0&ItemID=1700
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 188
- ↑ http://www.moisahotell.ee/
- ↑ http://register.muinas.ee/?menuID=monument&action=view&id=13961
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 192