Kalvi

59.48027826.788056Koordinaten: 59 ° 29 'N, 26 ° 47'

Kalvi ( German Pöddes ) is a village in the Estonian rural community Azeri ( Ida- Viru ). It has 40 inhabitants (as of 2003).

Kalvi Manor

The vassals castle in Kalvi was first mentioned in documents in 1485. Her then owner Hans Lode pawned for a hundred marks on the Tallinn Bishop Simon of the Borch. 1512 walked the land the property of Dietrich Kalff, from which the name of the place derives.

Later the castle was largely useless and destroyed. From the remains of the east wing a massive early classicist manor house was built in the second half of the 18th century. As of 1775, the later revivalists and Baltic German writer Friedrich Gustav Arvelius ( 1753-1806 ) was there employed as a private tutor. The entire ensemble of the estate consisted of thirteen buildings in the 18th and 19th centuries. 1910 burned the mansion, however, completely.

1913 was the Baltic German Baron Nicolai von Stackelberg just north of the old mansion to build a new estate. It is on a steep slope, about 50 meters above the Baltic coast. The powerful facade of the three-story mansion was inspired by the Gothic. In addition, the St. Petersburg architect Vladislav Karpovich processed also elements of Art Nouveau and Baroque. The buildings were surrounded by a ten -acre park, in its eastern part, there was a pond with a small island. The mansion, suffered from a major fire in 1921, but was restored again. It had its own power station, sewers and central heating.

In 1940, the property was expropriated by the Soviet occupation authorities. It then served as a convalescent home for miners.

The main building was completely renovated in early 2000 by a Danish company and stylishly converted into a luxury hotel with sauna and swimming area.