Pudivere is a village in

Väike-Maarja Parish Väike-Maarja Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 5,421 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 457.39 km². Settlements ;Small boroughs Kiltsi, Rakke, Simuna, Väike-Maarja ;Village ...

Lääne-Viru County Lääne-Viru County ( or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern. Lääne-Viru borders Id ...

, in northeastern

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. It has a population of 41 (as of 1 January 2011). Pudivere Manor () was established in 1586 by detaching it from neighbouring

Võivere Võivere () is a village in Väike-Maarja Parish, Lääne-Viru County, in northeastern Estonia. It has a population of 49 (as of 1 January 2011). One of the points of the Struve Geodetic Arc The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey ...

Manor. Until the dispossessing in 1919 it belonged to the owners of Avanduse Manor the Bremen family. Since the fire in 1999 the 1896–97 built stylish wooden

historicist Historicism is an approach to explaining the existence of phenomena, especially social and cultural practices (including ideas and beliefs), by studying the process or history by which they came about. The term is widely used in philosophy, ant ...

main building is in the ruins. Estonian writer

Eduard Vilde Eduard Vilde ( – 26 December 1933) was an Estonian writer, a pioneer of critical realism in Estonian literature, and a diplomat. He was the author of classics such as ''The War in Mahtra'' and ''The Milkman from Mäeküla''. He was one of the ...

was born in 1865 as the son of local overseer of Pudivere Manor. In his 100th anniversary in 1965 a memorial stone was opened 1 km east of Pudivere in a place known as Pelgulinn.

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Pudivere Manor
at Estonian Manors Portal Villages in Lääne-Viru County Kreis Wierland {{LääneViru-geo-stub