Varbola
Coordinates: 59 ° 3 ' N , 24 ° 27' E
Varbola is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural municipality of Märjamaa in Rapla County .
location
The village is 45 kilometers southwest of the Estonian capital Tallinn . It has 302 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2005). The village was first mentioned in 1241 as Uarpal .
Between the villages of Varbola and Põlli was the pre-Christian Estonian castle Varbola ( Estonian Varbola Jaanilinnus ; Latin Castrum Warbole ), one of the largest of its kind in what is now Estonia.
Today's place emerged from the merger of the former small villages of Varbola, Sirgu, Purga and Hiietse in 1975.
Good Vardi
In Varbola there was also the Vardi estate (German Black (t) zen or Black (t) zenhof ). It was founded in 1582. The name comes from the owner at the time, a certain Hans Swartz.
The estate belonged to the playwright August von Kotzebue (1761–1819) from 1807 to 1813 . On Vardi, Kotzebue edited, among other things, the anti-Napoleonic magazines "Die Biene" and "Die Grille", which appeared in Königsberg from 1808 to 1821 . In Vardi, von Kotzebue also propagated the benefits of potato cultivation among Estonian farmers.
The famous private tutors of the von Kotzebue family in Vardi included Johann August von Hagen (1786–1877), Carl Siegismund Walther (1783–1867), Johann Christoph Petri (1762–1851) and Gerhard Alexander Pahnsch (1842–1880).
From 1855 the farm was owned by the noble Baltic German family Pilar von Pilchau . The manor house was burned down during the Russian Revolution of 1905 . It was then partially rebuilt and a two-story east wing was added. The last owner before the expropriation in the Estonian land reform of 1919 was Max Baron Pilar von Pilchau.
During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, the local sovkhoz club was housed in the estate . There is now a library in the former manor house.
The caretaker's house from 1914 and an idiosyncratic hexagonal poultry house from 1913 have been preserved on the former estate. The Latin inscription Omnia ab ovo ("All things [come] from the egg") is attached to the wall.
Web links
- Description of the place (Estonian)
- Gut Vardi (Estonian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ivar Sakk: Eesti mõisad. Rice yuht. Tallinn 2002 ( ISBN 9985-78-574-6 ), p. 90
- ↑ Indrek Rohtmets: Kultuurilooline Eestimaa. Tallinn 2004 ( ISBN 9985-3-0882-4 ), pp. 98f.