Kloostri

58.73888923.831111Koordinaten: 58 ° 44 'N, 23 ° 50'

Kloostri ( German cloister ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Lihula ( Lihula vald ) in Lääne.

Population and location

The village has 68 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). It is situated 27 kilometers southeast of the county town of Haapsalu.

Near the village is the 24 -meter-high "mountain" Salumäe located near the Matsalubucht ( Matsalu Laht ).

Cloister

The town's name comes from the local monastery courtyard. He was one of the main assets of the conducted by the Cistercians in Lihula nunnery. The foundation of the monastery and Well, maybe goes back to the 13th century.

In the Middle Ages the heavily fortified main stone house was built. After the Livonian War the estate fell to the Swedish state, the tactics involved the monastery. The government in Stockholm mortgaged the estate in 1591 the Captain Caspar von Tiesenhausens. 1611 gave King Charles XI. the good the military earned John of Derfelden Elder ( 1561-1633 ). About two hundred years it was owned by the noble Baltic German family Derfelden.

The mid-17th century they had the magnificent two-storey mansion in the Baroque style building with two massive coat chimneys. Parts of the building probably go back to the medieval predecessor. On the ground floor were the economic areas, upstairs the residential and state rooms.

1829 was the estate of the aristocratic Baltic German family heels. Last private owner before the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the Baltic German Baron Nikolai Axel von Fersen. The country was then divided among the local farmers.

By 1939, the mansion was preserved in its original style, but was largely empty. Then the wooden parts were removed, which were used for the Soviet military bases. Today only stone ruins can be seen. The roof is completely absent. Get moch is the park of the estate and a few outbuildings.