Maidla, Ida-Viru County
59.33638927.011389Koordinaten: 59 ° 20 ' N, 27 ° 1' O
The village Maidla (Estonian Maidla küla ) is in the same rural community in Ida -Viru county (East Wierland ) in northeastern Estonia.
Description and History
Maidla ( historical German name until 1878 Maydell or Maydel, then Wrangelstein ) has 132 inhabitants ( as of 2000). The village is located three kilometers southeast of the city on the river Kiviõli Purtse ( Purtse Jõgi ).
The place probably has a long history of settlement, whereupon a found at Maidla prehistoric cult stone points.
Maidla was first mentioned in 1241 as Maydalæ records in Liber Census Daniæ.
The present town was founded during Maidla the land reform of the Estonian SSR from an association of six small villages.
Farm and village
1404 hooks in the village of Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights to a certain Hinke Maydel was verlehnt. In Estonia has been much speculation about whether Hinke was German or Estonian origin.
As of 1465, the Court Maydell was first recorded in a document. He was the family estate of the noble family Maydell.
1499 Maydell Wolmar sold the farm to Otto Tuve. The following owners were Odert 1529 Bremen, 1586 Otto Schulmann, 1641 Johann Brackelsberg and from 1689 Carl Wrangell ( 1643-1719 ), who subsequently bequeathed it to his son. In the first half of the 16th century the village disappeared and the country fell to the court.
The farm was from 1689 to 1890 the property of the aristocratic Baltic German family Wrangel. At the request of Wrangel family who had the good nearly 200 years of ownership, in 1878 renamed the village by a decision of the government of Estonia in German language in Wrangelstein.
In 1877, Marie Löwis of Monar ( born Wrangell, 1826 to 1890 ) owner. Last private owner of the yard in front of the Estonian land reform was from 1890 to 1919 Hermann von Lowis of Monar ( 1863-1935 ). He emigrated in 1918 to Germany.
At outbuildings to find the historical administrator and the gardener's house.
Manor of Maidla
The former attach Main farmhouse was destroyed in the Great Northern War in the early 18th century. On the ruins, Georg Ludwig von Wrangell 1764-1767 by the architect Johann Paul Dührschmidt a new mansion built. The two-storey building with a high roof is one of the finest baroque buildings in Estonia.
In the triangular gable on the main facade there are the coats of arms of noble families Wrangell and Brevern. The stucco decorations are the work of Tallinn master Johann Schultz. Baroque are the joinery 18th century, which were performed by a master Wagener.
Since 1925 located in the manor house, the school of the village. Guests can enjoy the baroque building for ceremonies rent or stay in it. There is an annual music festival in the open air at the mansion.
The plant, with its spacious French Park was completely renovated in 2002.