Heimtali Heimthal

In the Middle Ages Heimtali belonged to the Order castle at Karksi, and from 1744 to the von Sivers family. In the 1850s Peter Reinhold von Sivers designed a low main house himself, giving its center and galleries flat roofs, a rarity in Estonia. His love of novelty also left a cheese house with four round corner towers and a sixteen-sided round stable, making Heimtali one of Estonia’s most unusual manors.

Built / first recorded

1855–1857

Style

Historicism

Condition

Standing

County

Viljandi County · Heimtali

German name

Heimthal

Owners

• Liivi ordu1528
• von Sivers1744–1919

Good to know

• The 1858 cheese house has four round corner towers and was long mistaken for a distillery.
• The “round” stable actually has sixteen sides around a courtyard.
• In the 1800s the estate had more than 40 outbuildings.

Photos through time

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