Abja is recorded from 1460, but the manor moved to its present site in the late 1500s. In 1764 Catherine II visited. From 1806 to 1919 it belonged to the von Stackelbergs, who built the stone house with its granary and coach house; the baron’s children lived 60 meters away in the young ladies’ house. The house later held a high school, a home-economics school and, from 1957 to 1992, a children’s home.
The house, park, avenue, granary, young ladies’ house and stone bridge are protected; the house’s finish has begun to decay.
Owners
Vietinghoff16. saj–1582
von Fersen1630–17. saj
Posse1723–1799
von Stackelberg1806–1919
Good to know
The cellar still holds stone “sauerkraut barrels.”
Russian troops burned the manor in 1702 during the Great Northern War.
In World War II the house was a German military hospital.
Photos through time
2014 · The main house, 2014 Raul Kern · CC BY-SA 4.02014 · The young ladies’ house Marrx · CC BY-SA 3.0 EE2014 · The manor granary, 2014 WikedKentaur · CC BY-SA 3.0 EE2014 · The manor avenue, 2014 Raul Kern · CC BY-SA 4.0
