Seira (Lääneranna)

Coordinates: 58 ° 43 '  N , 24 ° 1'  E

Seira​

Estonia

Seira (German Seyer ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural municipality Lihula in Lääne County ) in Estonia .

Population and location

The place has 59 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 37 kilometers southeast of Haapsalu .

history

Seira was first mentioned in 1430 under the name Serl . In medieval times, the village of Szeura was owned by the Lihula nunnery . From 1688 the farm is known as Seir .

Good Vanamõisa

19th century bridge at Vanamõisa Historic Manor

In the 17th century the manor Vanamõisa (German Wannamois ) was founded on the former lands of the Cistercian monastery of Lihula in the area of ​​today's village . It was then part of the parish of Kirbla ( Kirbla kihelkond ).

During the Swedish time in Estonia the property belonged to the Oxenstierna family . After the Great Northern War at the beginning of the 18th century, the owners changed frequently. It was then owned by the noble Baltic German family Hoyningen-Huene . At the beginning of the 18th century, Gustav Graf Rehbinder was the owner. In 1830, the Clodt von Jürgensburg family acquired the property through marriage .

In 1851 the estate passed into the ownership of the Budberg family through family ties . She held the property until it was expropriated as part of the Estonian land reform in 1919. At the turn of the 20th century, Otto Bernhard von Budberg (1850–1907) was the owner of the estate. From 1893 he was knighthood captain of the Estonian knighthood for almost ten years .

A characteristic feature of the estate is the 64-meter-long stone bridge over the Võhma river ( Võhma jõgi ). It was built in the middle of the 19th century.

The elongated, single-storey manor house in the classicism style and most of the outbuildings are now only in ruins. The administrator's house in the old Baltic style is worth seeing. One and a half kilometers southwest of the former manor house is the Budberg family cemetery.

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), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 547.

Web links

• Good Vanamõisa (Estonian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://pub.stat.ee/
2. ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 318f.