For some 300 years Aruküla belonged to Raasiku manor, an estate of Padise Abbey. In 1581 King John III of Sweden gave the land to Captain Johann de la Blanque, and it later belonged to the De la Gardies and the Torstensons. The manor was founded in 1686 on the lands of the village of the same name. From 1766 to 1919 it belonged to the Baranoffs. The surviving long one-story classical stone house was built under Karl Georg von Baranoff in the 1820s; low triangular pediments on its projecting end bays enliven the hip-roofed building.
The building belongs to Raasiku Parish; since 1992 it has housed the Aruküla Free Waldorf School alongside the Pääsulind hobby center, and the manor hall hosts cultural events.
Owners
Padise klooster1581
de la Blanque1581–1660
De la Gardie1660
Torstenson1724
von Taube1724
von Baranoff1766–1919
Good to know
The Aruküla school was housed in the manor from 1921 to 1978.
Around 1900 a timber second story was added to the center of the house; in 1983 it was renovated to a design by Leonhard Lapin.
The last owner, Peter Paul Alexander von Baranoff, himself lived at Uue-Peetri manor.
