Aa Haakhof

Before the Livonian War, Aa was the seat of an Order district under the Vogt of Narva. In 1696–1698 Georg Bogislaus von Wangersheim had the Tallinn master builder Peter Jonas raise a stone house, one of the few manor houses from the Swedish era that survive in Estonia. It was burned in the Great Northern War. In the late 1700s it gained one-story wings, a Classicist facade and a Baroque pediment topped by a crane-shaped weathervane.

Built / first recorded

1696–1698 · enlarged in the late 1700s

Style

Baroque and Classicism

Condition

Standing

County

Ida-Viru County · Lüganuse

German name

Haakhof

Owners

• Wangersheim1630–1787
• Nasackin1787–1841
• Cramer1869–1886
• von Grünewaldt1889–1919

Good to know

• One of the cobalt-painted tiled stoves installed around 1723 is now in Kadriorg, Tallinn.
• In 1782 the manor had 66 servants and its own small harbor.
• The last owner, Otto von Grünewaldt, translated Russian classics into German.

Photos through time

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