Lohu

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Lohu ( German LOAL ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural community Kohila ( Koil ) in a circle Rapla.

Description

Lohu has 83 inhabitants (as of 3 September 2008). The area is 2.4 km ².

The place is located 3 km from Kohila at the upper reaches of the River Keila ( Keila Jõgi ), on the road between Tallinn and Rapla. The village was mentioned in documents as villamagna Lone for the first time in 1216.

Fortress Lohu

Lohu is best known as the site of two prehistoric strongholds of pagan Estonians on both sides of the river. The larger one was also called Lohu Jaanilinn ( " locust Fixed Lohu "). She was one of the key fortresses of the 12th and 13th century, when the pagan Estonia was conquered by the Catholic crusade movement advancing in the Baltics.

The courtyard was protected to the north, west and east by an approximately 300 meters long and six meters high horseshoe-shaped wall. Access to the castle was in the northeast. The chronicler Henry of Latvia mentioned the place under the name castrum Lone.

Although the Christian conquerors of Riga could bring Coming in winter 1220, and the place Lohu under their authority; the fort of the Estonians, however, did not come until 1224, after a two-week siege.

The smaller and older of the two prehistoric castles originated by archaeological finds probably from the 10th and 11th century and is located a little further south. Maybe it was an outer bailey of the later larger fortress.

Good Lohu

About a kilometer south of the town of the former strongholds is a historic manor house of Lohu ( Lohu mõis ). It is now privately owned after it served as an office building a collective farm during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. The estate itself is documented since the year 1620. In the 17th century the manor was still made of wood. Only in the first half of the 18th century was the squire is a manor house built of stone, which later served as manager building. 1780 a new mansion was completed, which was remodeled in the last quarter of the 19th century in neo-Gothic style.

The mansion was known primarily for his interior 1791 painted Gottlieb Christian Welte the walls with natural motifs and ancient myths magnificently from. 1825 acquired French tapestries with motifs of Don Quixote were later placed there, which today are located in the Estonian History Museum in Tallinn. They are probably from the workshop of Jacquemart & Bernard.

The baroque, nine -acre park of the estate put on the end of the 19th century, the garden architect Georg Kuphaldt. From the second half of the 19th century comes a watermill, and liquor factory was built in 1890.