Jägala dates from the Middle Ages, when it belonged to the Bishop of Tallinn; the earliest records date from 1424. In the 1600s it belonged to the De la Gardies and the Scheidings, and from 1747 until 1919 to the Breverns. Probably in the 1750s–1780s a small one-story Baroque house with a mansard roof was built, its facade enlivened by pilaster strips and a one-window raised center with a triangular pediment and an oval window. In the later 1800s lacy timber verandas were added, along with two long rear wings.
The manor center lies in a closed military area and, together with the later garrison town, belongs to the Defense Forces Logistics Center. The main house survives roughly in its late-19th-century form.
Owners
Tallinna piiskopkondkeskaeg–16. saj
De la Gardie17. saj
Scheiding17. saj
Bohn1731–1747
von Brevern1747–1919
Good to know
In the 1920s the Estonian armed forces moved in, and Jägala became an air base of the Republic of Estonia.
After World War II the manor housed a Soviet Army higher military-political construction school.
Unusually, the large park lay not behind the house but to its west.