Sangaste ( vro, Sangastõ) is a
small borough
The following is a list of boroughs ( et, alevid) and small boroughs ( et, alevikud) in Estonia.
Boroughs
* Aegviidu
*Järva-Jaani
*Järvakandi
*Kiili
*Kohila
*Kohtla-Nõmme
* Lavassaare
*Märjamaa
* Paikuse
*Pärnu-Jaagupi
* Tootsi
*Vändra
S ...
( et, alevik) in
Otepää Parish
Otepää Parish ( et, Otepää vald) is a rural municipality in Valga County, southern Estonia. It includes the town of Otepää.
Settlements
;Town
Otepää
;Small boroughs
Puka - Sangaste
;Villages
Ädu - Arula- Ilmjärve - Kääriku - ...
,
Valga County
Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and larg ...
, southern
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 ...
. Sangaste has a population of 228 (as of 1 January 2010).
Sangaste castle
Sangaste castle or manor (german: Schloss Sagnitz) traces its history to at least 1522, when it was part of the estates of the
bishop of Tartu. The current building was built in 1879-1883 and designed by architect
Otto Pius Hippius
Otto Pius Hippius (, Saint Petersburg — , Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German architect, particularly noted for several buildings in present-day Estonia.
Life and works
Otto Hippius was born to the painter and lithographer, Gustav Adolf Hi ...
. It is built in a
neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
style with influences from
Tudor architecture, and considered one of the most impressive examples of Gothic Revival architecture in the
Baltic States
The Baltic states, et, Balti riigid or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term, which currently is used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, ...
. Several original interior details have been preserved to this day. The manor house was unusually modern for its time, equipped with central heating, telephones in 1896, and electric light in 1907.
According to legend, it owes its existence to an insult the local count Friedrich Georg Magnus von Berg received in his youth. When attempting to wed a young English lady, her father objected to giving his daughter away to "some Russian savage".
Nowadays the castle is administratively located in the nearby
Lossiküla village.
Gallery
Sangaste mõisa peahoone2.jpg, Sangaste castle
Sangaste mõisa peahoone3.jpg , Sangaste castle
Sangaste mõisa tall-tõllakuur.jpg, Sangaste manor stable-coach house
Sangaste kirik.jpg, Sangaste church
Sangaste surnuaia kabel 2.jpg, One of the cemetery chapels in Sangaste cemetery
Notable people
*
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg
Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert Graf von Berg (german: Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Берг, tr. ; ) was a Baltic German nobleman, statesman, diplomat and general who served in the Imperial Russian Army. ...
(1793–1874),
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 ...
Field Marshal, the Governor-General of Finland and notable for his role in the Russification of
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...
; was born in Sangaste Castle
*
August Gailit
August Gailit (9 January 1891 – 5 November 1960) was an Estonian writer.Endel Nirk, Arthur Robert Hone, Oleg Mutt, ''Estonian Literature: Historical Survey with Biobibliographical Appendix'', Published by Perioodika, 1987, p177
Life
Georg ...
(1891–1960), writer; was born in
Kuiksilla, near the Sangaste Castle
*
Aarne Viisimaa
Aarne Viisimaa (born as Arnold Peeter Visman; 25 November 1898, Sangaste – 2 October 1989, Stockholm) was an Estonian operatic tenor and opera director. He was notably the director of the Estonian National Opera from 1927 to 1944. As an opera s ...
(1898–1989), operatic tenor and opera director
References
External links
Sangaste ParishSangaste Castle
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Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
Manor houses in Estonia
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