Karjaküla

Karjaküla ( German Hohenhof ) is a village ( alevik ) in the Estonian rural municipality in Harju County Keila. It has 362 inhabitants ( 2004).

Formation

Karjaküla was first mentioned in 1241 as Carias documented. The Baltic German manor Vana- Karjaküla (Alt - Hohenhof ) was probably built around the year 1600 and until the early 1990s completely demolished after the mansion had long remained uninhabited.

1795 the reason was divided and built in 1807, a new estate ( Uus - Karjaküla, New Hohenhof ). At the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th century the present village was built.

Cultural History

Karjaküla is especially known for the Estonian writer Eduard Vilde, who lived there 1880-1890. His novel Mäeküla piirnamees (published in 1916) is partly set in the local manor house. Vildes novel draws on numerous true stories of the place. A birch from this period, to which the writer is said to have often sat, still stands there.

The Manor House at Rahula Karjaküla since 1762 lived the great-grandfather of the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, Abraham Petrovich Hannibal ( 1698-1781 ), a native of Ethiopia and Private Secretary Peters had been the Great. In 1746 he was presented with the estate for his services. At times he was Governor and General of Tallinn. Other traditions, however, claim he had in 1732 the manor Karjaküla bought and lived there until 1741 (see Related links)