Lustivere is a village in

Põltsamaa Parish Põltsamaa ( et, Põltsamaa vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Jõgeva County. It has a population of 2722 (2001) and an area of 416.9 km² (161.0 mi²). Populated places Põltsamaa Parish has one town, 3 small boroughs, an ...

Jõgeva County Jõgeva County ( et, Jõgeva maakond or ''Jõgevamaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in eastern part of the country and borders Ida-Viru County to the north-east, Lake Peipus to the east, Tartu County to the south, Viljandi C ...

in eastern

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 ...

Lustivere Manor

Lustivere Manor (german: Lustifer) has a history that goes back to at least 1522. During the centuries, it has belonged to the

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 ...

aristocratic Aristocracy (, ) is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats. The term derives from the el, αριστοκρατία (), meaning 'rule of the best'. At the time of the word's ...

families von Wolff, von Samson-Himmelstjerna and von Wahl, among others. The current building dates from 1881, with the tower added in 1891. The architect was Reinhold Guleke from

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

. A renovation was carried out already in 1910, when the building received such modern amenities as electricity and running water. Several of the furnishings from an earlier building were transferred to the new main house and are preserved, such as baroque doors and

cocklestove A masonry heater (also called a masonry stove) is a device for warming an interior space through radiant heating, by capturing the heat from periodic burning of fuel (usually wood), and then radiating the heat at a fairly constant temperature ...

Gallery

File:Lustivere kultuurikeskus.JPG, Lustivere cultural center Lustivere mõisa peahoone 19-05-2013.jpg, Lustivere Manor File:Lustivere postkontor Põltsamaa vallas.JPG, Post office File:Lustivere kool.jpg, Lustivere school File:Lustivere kauplus.jpg, Small shop in Lustivere File:Lustivere lasteaed.jpg, Kindergarten

References

{{Manor houses in Estonia Villages in Jõgeva County Kreis Fellin