Kärstna is a village in
Viljandi Parish
Viljandi Parish ( et, Viljandi vald) is a rural municipality of Viljandi County, Estonia. It is located around the town of Viljandi, but does not include it.
Viljandi Parish was established by merging four municipalities: Paistu, Pärsti, Saa ...
,
Viljandi County
Viljandi County ( et, Viljandi maakond or ''Viljandimaa''; german: Kreis Fellin) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in southern Estonia bordering Pärnu, Järva, Jõgeva, Tartu and Valga counties.
History
Viljandimaa, under the ...
,
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...
. Until the 2017 administrative reform of Estonian municipalities the village was located in
Tarvastu Parish.
Kärstna manor
Kärstna (german: Kerstenshof) manor traces its history back to 1678, when the estate was founded. Subsequently, it belonged to various
Baltic German
Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...
families from the
local upper-class. In 1740, it became the property of the
Anrep family
The House of Anrep is a Baltic German family, belonging to Swedish and Russian nobility.
History
The family originates from Anreppen, a village on Lippe river in Westfalia, Germany (now a part of Delbrück town). In 15th century Anreps, belongin ...
and stayed in their hands for much of its later history. It thus was the property of explorer
Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt
Reinhold Philipp Johann Graf von Anrep-Elmpt (30 January 1834 – 26 August 1888) was a Baltic German officer in Russian service, and an explorer.
Life and work
Reinhold von Anrep-Elmpt of the Anrep family was born in Kursk in the Russian ...
, his father
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
general
Joseph Carl von Anrep
Joseph Carl von Anrep (russian: Иосиф Романович Анреп; ''Iosif Romanovich Anrep-Elmpt''; 1796 – 28 June 1860) was a Baltic German general during the Crimean War. He was a member of the Russian branch of the Anrep family, the ...
, and his father, Reinhold von Arnep, also a general. A monument commemorating the latter, who died in the
Battle of Mohrungen during the
War of the Fourth Coalition
The Fourth Coalition fought against Napoleon's French Empire and were defeated in a war spanning 1806–1807. The main coalition partners were Prussia and Russia with Saxony, Sweden, and Great Britain also contributing. Excluding Prussia, ...
, is located near the manor house. The manor house was built in the mid-18th century and rebuilt in the early 20th century, but was destroyed in a fire soon after. The building received its present appearance during the subsequent rebuilding, led by
Riga-based architect
Otto Wildau. A park was laid out for the house in 1904, designed by
Walter von Engelhardt
Walter may refer to:
People
* Walter (name), both a surname and a given name
* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968)
* Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...
, also from Riga.
See also
*
List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia
This is the List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia. This list does not include castles, which are listed in a List of castles in Estonia, separate article. As there are at least 400 manor houses in Estonia, this list is incomplete.
Palaces ...
References
External links
Kärstna manorat Estonian Manors Portal
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Villages in Viljandi County
Kreis Fellin