Penijõe is a village in
Lääneranna Parish
Lääneranna Parish () is a rural municipality in Pärnu County. It includes the town of Lihula.
Gallery
Lihula.jpg, Lihula town
Kõima mõisa peahoone.jpg, Kõima manor in Kõima village
Virtsu lighthouse 1.jpg, Lighthouse in Virtsu
Settl ...
,
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 ...
, in western
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 ...
; in the centre of
Matsalu National Park
Matsalu National Park (previously Matsalu Nature Reserve, , often just Matsalu) is a nature reserve and national park situated in the Lääne and Pärnu counties of Estonia. Matsalu National Park spans an area of , comprising Matsalu Bay, the K ...
.
Penijõe Manor
Penijõe () estate was established in the first half of the 17th century. Before 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 ...
in 1918, the manor had 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. Between 1935 and 1955, the manor housed an agricultural school, and was later divided into flats. In 2000 the building was renovated.
The current building was erected in the first half of the 18th century. In the early 19th century, a second floor and the portico was added and the manor received its current classicist look. The manor is unusual in that the second floor is wooden rather than made of stone.
The manor is located in
Matsalu National Park
Matsalu National Park (previously Matsalu Nature Reserve, , often just Matsalu) is a nature reserve and national park situated in the Lääne and Pärnu counties of Estonia. Matsalu National Park spans an area of , comprising Matsalu Bay, the K ...
and today houses the Matsalu Nature Centre.
See also
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List of palaces and manor houses in Estonia
This is a list of palaces and manor houses in Estonia. This list does not include castles, which are listed in a List of castles in Estonia, separate article. As there are at least 400 manor houses in Estonia, this list is incomplete.
Palaces an ...
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Matsalu National Park
Matsalu National Park (previously Matsalu Nature Reserve, , often just Matsalu) is a nature reserve and national park situated in the Lääne and Pärnu counties of Estonia. Matsalu National Park spans an area of , comprising Matsalu Bay, the K ...
References
External links
Penijõe Manor official homepage
Villages in Pärnu County
Kreis Wiek
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