Aruküla, Järva County

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Aruküla ( German Arroküll ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural municipality in the district of Koeru Järva. It has 61 inhabitants ( 2008).

The place was first mentioned in the first half of the 17th century under the name Arrenküll documented. It lies north of the city Paid (white stone).

Manor of Aruküla

The estate of Aruküla belonged first of Gerstenberg family before it was 1635-1651 owned by the Swedish generals Lennart Torstensson ( 1603-1651 ). Subsequently, the estate belonged to his son in 1669, the Swedish statesman Anders Torstensson ( 1641-1686 ).

A stone mansion was built in 1782-1789. After a fire in the early 19th century, the construction of a neo-classical manor house was completed in 1810. From 1812 to 1819 there lived Karl Knorring ( 1773-1841 ), one of the most famous translator of Russian literature of that time. Among other things, his translation of Alexander Griboedov comedy became known mind creates suffering. His wife, the writer Sophie Tieck (sister of Ludwig Tieck ), wrote some of their works in Aruküla. In Evremont she has places and landscape held literary.

1820 bought the Russian general Count Karl Wilhelm von Toll, who had distinguished himself among others in campaigns in Switzerland, Italy and against Napoleon, the Good Aruküla. Leo Tolstoy, Karl von Toll a literary monument in war and peace. Near the mansion is now home to the neo-gothic grave chapel of the family from the second half of the 19th century.

In the time of Charles Toll's the mansion in the so-called Petersburg Empire style was rebuilt and received its present appearance. The two-story limestone mansion is decorated with a late classicist facade with a massive portico of four columns.

The estate was expropriated in 1919 by the Estonian government in the wake of land reform. Since then located in the manor house a school.