Ulvi, Lääne-Viru County

59.32527826.631389Koordinaten: 59 ° 20 ' N, 26 ° 38' O

Ulvi ( German Oerthen ) is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Rägavere ( Rägavere vald ). It is in Lääne -Viru county (West Wierland ).

Description and History

Ulvi located 15 kilometers east of the town of Rakvere ( Wesenberg ) at the Kunda River. The village has 341 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2010). Ulvi is the administrative center of the rural community Rägavere.

The place is located near the north-trending cross railway line between Tallinn and the former Russian capital Saint Petersburg. The railway line was inaugurated in the 1870s. She played a large role in the economic development of the region.

To the southeast, the vast marshes area Sirtsusoo which stretches to Lake Peipus extends.

1723 visited the young Russian Princess Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, Ulvi.

Good Ulvi

The manor of Ulvi was first mentioned in documents in 1489. The place was first called Oehrten for a now-extinct noble family. The Estonian name Ulvi he got in 1551 after the owner Hinrich Wulff.

In the 18th century, the estate belonged to the family Clapier de Cologne. In 1803 it was the property of the noble German Baltic family of Winkler. Last held the lands from confiscation in the course of the Estonian land reform of 1919 was Alexander Winkler. He then retained the core of the goods with the historic mansion to the resettlement of the German Balts 1939.

The present manor house was probably built in two phases. This single storey stone mansion built for the 19th century to the turn of the 18th. 1880/81 it was designed by the architect Friedrich modes to the style of historicism. He added a two-story outhouse. On the central axis of an open tower with balcony in the Neo-Renaissance style was added. Today is located in the manor house the municipal administration of the rural community Rägavere.

To the manor house there are numerous historic outbuildings from different eras.