Kolga

Kolga ( German Kolk ) is a village in the rural community Kuusalu is in Estonian Harju County. Kolga currently has 519 inhabitants (1 January 2007).

Kolga was first mentioned in 1241 under the name Põdratut. 1488 it was called the Purckell. As of 1290, a settlement site for monks under the name villa Kolco is there survived. The estate belonged to 1519 to the monastery of the Cistercian Roma on Gotland Island, before it passed into the ownership of the Danish crown. The medieval manor house was probably strongly fortified, but was largely destroyed during the Livonian War. From 1558 it was temporarily the Danish governor Christoph von Munchausen. It then fell to the Russian army, then in 1581 as a gift from the King of Sweden to the nobles Pontus de la Gardie. End of the 17th century it passed to the Stenbock family.

In 1626 the remains of the Cistercian settlement were removed. A short time later they started on the manor with large construction activity. 1642 the forerunner of today's farmhouse was built of stone. It was rebuilt from 1765 to 1768 in the baroque style. Its current neo-classical appearance was the magnificent mansion in the 1820s, when the wing strengthened and another floor were placed. The entrance characterizes a representative portico of six clustered columns. From the 18th century, numerous outbuildings were added.

With the occupation of Estonia to the Soviet Union in 1940 expropriated the family Stenbock. The estate was taken over by the Soviet state-owned. In 1993, after regaining the state independence, gave the Estonian State of the family's property back. A large part of the mansion is now in very poor structural condition.

In the main building of the manor of Kolga a history museum has been housed since 1994. The grounds also include a hotel and a restaurant in a historic setting. Both are currently closed.