Mäetaguse () is a
small borough
The following is a list of Populated places in Estonia, boroughs () and Populated places in Estonia, small boroughs () in Estonia.
Boroughs
*Aegviidu
*Järva-Jaani
*Järvakandi
*Kiili
*Kohila
*Kohtla-Nõmme
*Lavassaare
*Märjamaa
*Paikuse
*Pärn ...
(') in
Ida-Viru County
Ida-Viru County ( or ; ) is one of the 15 counties of Estonia. It is the most northeastern part of the country. The county contains large deposits of oil shale the main mineral mined in Estonia. Oil shale is used in the production of shale oil ...
in
Alutaguse Parish
Alutaguse Parish () is a rural municipality in Ida-Viru County. The administrative centre is Iisaku.http://www.alutagusevald.ee/ (accessed 5 March 2020)
Settlements
;Boroughs
Iisaku, Mäetaguse
;Villages
There are 73 villages: Religion ...
in northeastern
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 ...
. It was the administrative centre of
Mäetaguse Parish
Mäetaguse Parish () was an Estonian Municipalities of Estonia, municipality located in Ida-Viru County. It had a population of 1,556 (2005) and an area of 285 km2 (110 mi2).
Populated places
Mäetaguse Parish had a small borough, M ...
. As of the
2011 census, the settlement's population was 555, of which the
Estonians
Estonians or Estonian people () are a Finnic ethnic group native to the Baltic Sea region in Northern Europe, primarily their nation state of Estonia.
Estonians primarily speak the Estonian language, a language closely related to other Finni ...
were 271 (48.8%).
Mäetaguse Manor
Mäetaguse estate () was mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1542. Until the
Estonian Declaration of Independence
The Estonian Declaration of Independence, formally titled the Manifesto to the Peoples of Estonia (), is the founding document which established the independent democratic Estonia, Republic of Estonia in 1918. Issued during a period of intense p ...
, it belonged to different
Baltic German
Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are Germans, ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since Flight and expulsion of Germans (1944–1950), their resettlement in 1945 after the end ...
families, among others the
Wrangel
Wrangel or Wrangell is a Germanic surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Wrangel family, or Wrangell, a Baltic German noble family, including a list of notable family members
*Basil Wrangell (1906–1977), Italian film and television ...
and von Rosen. Between 1923 and 1988 it served as a schoolhouse.
Today it houses a hotel and spa.
Gallery
Mäetaguse mõisa peahoone.jpg, Mäetaguse manor main building
Mäetaguse mõisa ait.jpg, Mäetaguse manor granary
Mäetaguse mõisa kasvuhoone 01.JPG, Mäetaguse manor greenhouse
Mäetaguse kabel 01.JPG, Mäetaguse chapel
References
External links
*
Mäetaguse hotel and spa(official site)
Boroughs and small boroughs in Estonia
Kreis Wierland
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