Paju (Valga district)
Coordinates: 57 ° 49 ' N , 26 ° 7' E
Paju is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the southern Estonian rural community of Valga (until 2017 Tõlliste ) in Valga County . It is located about seven kilometers north of the Estonian-Latvian border town of Valga / Valka ( Walk ) on the Pedeli River (German Peddel ). Paju has 83 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010).
Paju Manor
The Paju manor (German Luhde-Großhof ) was separated from Gut Luhde (Estonian Luke , Latvian Lugaži ) as an independent manor in 1748 . From 1837 to 1856 the Paju estate was owned by the German Baltic von Jürgensonn family. Until the Estonian land reform in 1919 , it belonged to the Baltic German Christoph von Stryk.
The two-storey mansion was completed in 1873 in the style of late classicism . An outbuilding was added in the 1950s. Behind it is a landscape park. The manor's interiors were converted into a hospital after World War II . Since 1960 there has been a boarding school and home.
Battle of Paju
On January 31, 1919, the Battle of Paju (Estonian Paju lahing ) between Soviet-Russian-Latvian Bolsheviks and Estonian-Finnish units took place near the mansion . The communist armed forces used the manor house as one of the last defensive positions. The battle was the bloodiest clash of the Estonian War of Independence (1918–1920). The Estonian-Finnish victory made it possible for the Republic of Estonia to recapture southern Estonia.
In 1994, a memorial to the battle was inaugurated in Paju. In Estonia the place is a central memorial to the war of freedom against Soviet Russia . An information board tells the story of the battle. In the park of the Paju manor there is a memorial stone for the Finnish volunteers who fought in the Estonian War of Independence, the so-called Pohjan Pojat .
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- History of the Paju Estate (Estonian)
- Manor and Manor Paju (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 252
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), p. 308