Vatla (german: Wattel) is a village in
Lääneranna Parish
Lääneranna Parish ( et, Lääneranna vald) is a rural municipality (Estonia), rural municipality in Pärnu County. It includes the town of Lihula.https://www.laanerannavald.ee/ (accessed 7 March 2020)
Settlements
;Town
Lihula
;Boroughs
Virtsu ...
,
Pärnu County
Pärnu County ( et, Pärnu maakond or ''Pärnumaa''; german: Kreis Pernau) 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 nor ...
, in western
Estonia.
The surgeon
Eduard Georg von Wahl
Eduard Georg von Wahl ( in Vatla, Wattel – in Dorpat) was a Baltic German surgeon.
He was born in Vatla, Wattel (now Valta, Pärnu County, Estonia) in the Governorate of Estonia . In 1859 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Dorp ...
(1833–1890) was born in Vatla.
Vatla manor
Vatla manor was first mentioned in the late 16th century. It became the property of Swedish noble family Bielke but was later taken over by the Swedish state through one of the so-called
reductions
Reductions ( es, reducciones, also called ; , pl. ) were settlements created by Spanish rulers and Roman Catholic missionaries in Spanish America and the Spanish East Indies (the Philippines). In Portuguese-speaking Latin America, such redu ...
. Later, it again came into the hands of various
Baltic German aristocratic families. The current building dates from around 1810, and there are still some rather typical
neoclassicist
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was ...
interior details preserved, such as a painted frieze and a
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 ...
. Following the
land reform that was enacted when Estonia gained its independence in 1919, the manor was transformed into a school.
See also
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Vatla Airfield
References
Villages in Pärnu County
Manor houses in Estonia
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