Mäetaguse

59.22527827.294722Koordinaten: 59 ° 14 ' N, 27 ° 18'

The large village Mäetaguse (Estonian Mäetaguse alevik ) located in the homonymous country church ( Mäetaguse vald ) in Ida- Viru (East Wierland ) in northeastern Estonia.

Location and History

Mäetaguse ( German Mehntack ) has 608 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2006). The village is 52 km southeast of the town of Rakvere ( Wesenberg ).

Near Mäetaguse of the 25 km long river originates Mäetaguse ( Mäetaguse Jõgi ). He is a right tributary of the River Rannapungerja ( Rannapungerja Jõgi ).

The village Mäetaguse was first mentioned in documents in 1241 in Liber Census Daniæ under the name Meintacus.

Good Mäetaguse

History

1525 was the Baltic German nobility of Peter Tiesenhausens build his estate in Corwentacken at Mäetaguse. The farm was mentioned as Korwendal 1542 and later moved to what is now Mäetaguse.

1617 was the estate owned by tuwé Bremen. In 1638 went on through marriage into the possession of Fabian von Wrangel. Subsequently, the property came to the family of Ungern- Sternberg. During the Great Northern War, the building burned down in the early 18th century.

As of 1736, the Court was owned by the family of roses. From 1737 to 1759 was the Livonian resident District and Deputy District Marshal Otto Fabian von Rosen owner of the goods. The one in the Livonian knights politically influential Rosen was known primarily as a feudal supporter of serfdom and widespread lawlessness Estonian farmers. 1739, at the beginning of his tenure, he was responsible for the so-called Rosensche Declaration. From Rosen's writing "was the reply of the Baltic chivalry to the Russian Justice College on the relationship between landlords and peasants. It was determined that the squire own all rights over the peasants, and that was to be regarded as property, as a " serf of the Lord". " From Rosen's views, however, did not go unchallenged in German Baltic circles. 1816 serfdom was abolished in the government of Estonia, but only in the 1860s throughout the Russian Empire.

From Mäetaguse came the Decembrist Andreas von Rosen ( 1800-1884 ).

Last private owner of the goods before the expropriation in the course of land reform in Estonia in 1919 was Constantine Otto of roses.

Manor house

The two-storey stone mansion was built in 1796 Eugenius Octave of roses in the style of early classicism. The representative building was heavily remodeled after a fire in 1816 in the 1820s and 1890s. From the last modification dates and the balcony on the main facade.

In the state rooms, there are still rich stucco decorations in the style of historicism, oak doors, stoves and a fireplace. In the stairwell of the south wing there is a fresco depicting loorbeerbekränzte women and flying putti. It is a copy of the work that Andrea Mantegna was created in 1474 in the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua.

From 1923 to 1982 was located in the manor house, the school of the place before a new school building was inaugurated. The building was completely renovated after regaining of Estonian independence in the 1990s. Today, the ground floor of the mansion, the local government is located. The first floor serves as a concert hall.

Outbuilding

Just outside the cemetery is located on the neo-gothic grave chapel of the family of roses. The wooden building is now in a state of decay.

Ten outbuildings of the farm, especially two warehouses, the dairy and the caretaker's house, are well preserved. In the carriage house is a hotel since 2006. The former distillery is a sechssäuliges stone building, reminiscent of a temple in ancient Greece which now serves as a cultural center of the community. Worth seeing is the well-preserved, ten -acre park with its oaks.

1936 a small monument for the Baltic regiment was constructed, which fought in the Estonian War of Independence against Soviet Russia. Miraculously, it has the Soviet occupation of Estonia unscathed.