Ravila

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Ravila ( German Meks or Mecks ) is a village (Estonian alevik ) in the Estonian rural municipality in Harju County Kose. The village has 430 inhabitants (as of 2000).

History

Ravila was first mentioned in records in 1241 under the name Ravelik. 1343 Ravila was during the so-called " uprising in the Georg night " scene of a bloody battle between the insurgent Estonians and units of the Commendatore of Kursi.

Good Ravila

The manor Meck's (now Ravila ) was first mentioned in documents in 1469. It belonged successively to the noble families of roses, von Uexküll and of Detloff before it moved Zoege von Manteuffel in the possession of the family. Ravila has become famous mainly as a food point of the Baltic German nobility Peter August Friedrich von Manteuffel ( 1768-1842 ). The eccentric Count experimented with flying machines and was one of the first authors of popular Estonian literature.

Before the Estonian land reform in 1919 the estate was owned by the Countess Alexandra von Kotzebue ( born Pilar of Pilchau ). Up until the 1930s it remained as Resthof obtained before 1932 moved an educational institution. From 1948 to 1958, the plant was used as an agricultural school. Since then located on the estate a center for the chronically ill and the disabled.

The original Baroque manor house dating from the mid 18th century, one of the oldest in Harju County, burned down during the Russian Revolution, 1905. It was rebuilt two stories in smaller form in 1910. The baroque -like granite staircase and the pointed triangular gable fall on the façade. To the manor house, the 13.5 -acre park stretches almost to the Pirita River ( Pirita Jõgi ). In his senior part, there are over 60 types dendrological.

Of the numerous quaint outbuildings especially the former dairy farm is worth seeing from the last quarter of the 19th century. In it was formerly the distillery of the estate.