Tõstamaa is a

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() in Pärnu municipality,

Pärnu County Pärnu County ( or ''Pärnumaa''; ) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in the south-western part of the country, on the coast of Gulf of Riga, and borders Lääne and Rapla counties to the north, Järva and Viljandi counties to ...

, southwestern

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. Tõstamaa has a population of 466 (as of 1 January 2020). Tõstamaa St. Mary's Lutheran church was built in 1763–1768.

Tõstamaa Manor

Tõstamaa Manor () was first mentioned in 1553 as ''Testama'', when it belonged to the Bishop of Ösel–Wiek. Later the owners have been the Kursells, Helmersens and Staël von Holsteins. The Early-Classical two-storey main building was built in 1804. During a renovation in 1997, several original painted ceilings were uncovered. The manor was dispossessed in 1919 and since 1921 a local school ( Tõstamaa Keskkool) is operating in the main building. The most famous inhabitant of the manor is probably orientalist

Alexander von Staël-Holstein Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Staël von Holstein (, 1 January 1877 in Testama manor, Livonia, Russian Empire16 March 1937 in Beiping, China) was a Baltic German aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, and Sanskritologist spe ...

, who grew up and spent his childhood at the manor.

Notable people

* Ellinor Aiki (1893-1969), painter, born in Tõstamaa * Urmas Eero Liiv (born 1966), film director, born in Tõstamaa * Artur Uritamm (1901–1982), composer, born in Tõstamaa

Gallery

File:Tõstamaa alevi keskväljak.jpg, Central square in Tõstamaa File:Tõstamaa kirik.JPG, Tõstamaa St. Mary's Lutheran church File:Tõstamaa mõis.jpg, Tõstamaa Manor File:Tõstamaa mõisa peatrepp.jpg, Lobby of the manor File:Tõstamaa jõgi.jpg, Tõstamaa River in winter

References

External links

Tõstamaa Parish

Tõstamaa Manor
at Estonian Manors Portal
Tõstamaa high school
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tostamaa Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia Manor houses in Estonia Kreis Pernau