Ulvi (Rägavere)
Coordinates: 59 ° 20 ' N , 26 ° 38' E
Ulvi (German Oerthen ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality of Rägavere ( Rägavere vald ). It is in the Lääne-Viru district ( West-Wierland ).
Description and history
Ulvi is located 15 kilometers east of the town of Rakvere ( Wesenberg ) on the Kunda River . The village has 341 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010). Ulvi is the administrative center of the rural municipality of Rägavere.
The place is close to the northern railway line between Tallinn and the Russian capital of St. Petersburg at the time . The railway line was inaugurated in the 1870s. It played a major role in the region's economic development.
In the south-east extends the extensive swamp area Sirtsusoo, which extends to Lake Peipus .
In 1723 the young Russian princess Elisabeth , the daughter of Tsar Peter the Great , visited Ulvi.
Good Ulvi
The manor of Ulvi was first mentioned in a document in 1489. The place was initially called Oehrten after a noble family that is now extinct. He got the Estonian name Ulvi in 1551 after the owner Hinrich Wulff.
In the 18th century the estate belonged to the Clapier de Colongue family . In 1803 it became the property of the noble Baltic German family von Winkler. The last owner of the land before it was expropriated as part of the Estonian land reform of 1919 was Alexander von Winkler. He then kept the core of the estate with the historic manor house until the Baltic Germans were resettled in 1939.
Today's mansion was probably built in two phases. The single-storey stone mansion was built around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1880/81 the architect Friedrich Modi redesigned it in the style of historicism . He added a two-story outbuilding. On its central axis, an open tower with a balcony in the neo-renaissance style was added. Today the town hall of the rural community of Rägavere is located in the manor house.
There are numerous historical outbuildings from different eras around the manor house.
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. 402.
Web links
- Ulvi Manor (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
