Angerja Vassal Castle Angern

Angerja is one of the oldest stone buildings in Rapla County: an elongated, tower-like two-story limestone house-castle with walls two meters thick and cellars below, protected by a ring wall, a moat and the Angerja brook. It was first recorded in 1424 and belonged to the Livonian Order in 1451–1455. It took its final form in the early 1500s under a Tallinn burgomaster; destroyed in the Livonian War, it was restored in the 1600s and fell into ruin in the mid-1800s.

Built / first recorded

1300s–1400s · recorded 1424

Style

Medieval house-castle

Condition

In ruins since the mid-1800s

County

Rapla County · Kohila

German name

Angern

Owners

• Liivi ordu1451–1455
• Brun Wetberg1455–15. saj

Good to know

• The German name Angern probably comes from an owner, Hinrich van Anger.
• Local legend tells of a secret tunnel from the castle to Salutaguse manor.
• In 1963 a 13th-century silver hoard was found 200 m from the castle.

Photos through time

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