Vana-Antsla is a
small borough ( et, alevik) in
Võru County
Võru County ( et, Võru maakond or ''Võrumaa''; vro, Võro maakund) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga County and Põlva County and is the only Estonian county bordering two countries - Latvia ( Alūksne Municipality an ...
, in southeastern
Estonia
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, located about north of the town of
Antsla
Antsla is a town in Võru County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative centre of Antsla Parish.
Antsla borough was renamed town of third rank by Konstantin Päts from 1 May 1938. The settlement is known since 1405. The town has a furnitur ...
. As of
2011 Census, the settlement's population was 181.
The settlement is situated around the Vana-Antsla knight manor (''Schloß Anzen''), first mentioned in 1404. At first it was built as a vassal's stronghold and belonged to the
Uexküll family. The stronghold was destroyed during the 17th century Polish-Swedish and Russo-Swedish wars. Swedish King
Gustav II Adolf
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gave the manor to
Åke Tott in 1625. In the end of the 17th century the
Uue-Antsla (New Antsla) manor (''Neu-Anzen'') was detached from the manor, therefore the old one gained the name Vana-Antsla (Old Antsla). After the
Great Northern War
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the manor was owned by the
Löwenstern family and from 1883 by the
Ungern-Sternberg
The House of Ungern-Sternberg is the name of an old and influential Baltic-German noble family, with branches belonging to the German, Finnish, Swedish and Russian nobility.
Notable members
* Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg (1689–176 ...
s. After the Estonian independence in 1919 the manor was dispossessed like all the others around the country. The complex had since been used as an agricultural vocational school until it was closed in 2012. Most of the historical buildings have survived, including the single-storey main building from the 18th century.
Before 1977 the settlement was called Kobela, but was renamed to Vana-Antsla when a new small borough 4 km southwest was created and named
Kobela.
References
External links
Vana-Antsla Manorat Estonian Manors Portal
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
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