Varbola

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Varbola is a village (Estonian küla ) in the Estonian rural municipality in the district Märjamaa Rapla.

Location

The village is 45 kilometers southwest of the Estonian capital Tallinn. It has 302 inhabitants (as at 31 December 2005). The village was first mentioned in 1241 as Uarpal documented.

Between the villages Varbola and Polli pre-Christian Estonian castle was Varbola (Estonian Varbola Jaanilinnus; Latin Castrum Warbole ), one of the largest of its kind in the area of present-day Estonia.

The present town grew out of the 1975 completed unification of the former small villages Varbola, Sirgu, Purga and Hiietse.

Good Vardi

In Varbola there was also the Good Vardi ( German Schwar (t ) zen or Schwar (t ) zenhof ). It was founded in 1582. The name comes from the former Taken Hallows, a certain Hans Swartz.

The manor belonged from 1807 to 1813 the dramatist August von Kotzebue ( 1761-1819 ). On Vardi Kotzebue edited, among others, the anti- Napoleonic magazines " The Bee " and " The Grille ", which appeared in 1808 to 1821 in Königsberg. In Vardi propagated by Kotzuebue also the benefits of potato breeding among Estonian peasants.

The famous house of the family of teachers in Kotzebue Vardi included Johann August von Hagen (1786-1877), Carl Sigismund Walther (1783-1867), Johann Christoph Petri (1762-1851) and Gerhard Alexander Pahnsch ( 1842-1880 ).

From 1855 on the farm was owned by the noble Baltic German family of Pilar Pilchau. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, the manor house was burned down. It was then built up partially and expanded to a two-storey east wing. Last owner before the expropriation in the Estonian land reform of 1919 was Max Baron Pilar von Pilchau.

During the Soviet occupation of Estonia the local state farms in the good of the club was housed. In the former mansion now houses a library.

On the former estate including the caretaker's house from 1914 and a quirky hexagonal poultry house from 1913 are preserved. On the wall of the Latin inscription Omnia is ab ovo ( " all things [ come ] out of the egg " ) attached.