Elistvere Ellistfer

Elistvere was one of the oldest estates in the area, on record as early as 1355, and passed from the Ungerns to the Wrangells and then the Stackelbergs. In 1785 Reinhold von Stackelberg raised a huge Late Baroque mansion on a tall plinth beneath a steep hip roof, counted among the grandest in Estonia. It was torn down in the 1930s, and today lynx and bears roam the old park.

Built / first recorded

1785

Style

Late Baroque

Condition

Demolished in the 1930s

County

Tartu County · Elistvere

German name

Ellistfer

Owners

• von Ungern1443
• von Wrangell1518–1723
• von Stackelberg1723–1869
• von Ungern-Sternberg1869–1919

Good to know

• In 1723 a Wrangell sold the estate to a Stackelberg he had shared Russian captivity with during the Great Northern War.
• By 1884 the manor complex had 25 buildings.
• The stables and steward’s house only collapsed in Soviet times.

Photos through time

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