Kabala manor is first recorded in 1469. In the 1500s and 1600s it belonged to the Hastfers and the Krusensterns; in 1797 Frommhold von Vietinghoff, owner of Kehtna, acquired it, and before 1919 it belonged to Otto von Lilienfeld, owner of Kuusiku. The archaic, thick-walled house follows the old Baltic manor plan. Much of its cellars and walls probably date from the Middle Ages: its riverside hill is ideal for a vassal castle, and the irregular masonry suggests older buildings were reworked. The house probably took its final form and tall hip roof in the late 1700s, when it was lengthened at the right end.
The house has held the municipal government and library. Many outbuildings survive, the most notable being a five-arched granary from the 1700s, to which a two-story drying barn was added in the early 1900s.
Owners
von Hastfer16. saj
von Krusenstern17. saj
von Vietinghoff1797
von Lilienfeld1919
Good to know
At the center of the house is one of the most spacious mantel chimneys in Estonia, about 4 by 6 meters inside.
The small entrance porch and the arched windows date from a rebuilding in the 1860s.
Its German name was Kappel.
Photos through time
2011 · Kabala manor house, 2011 Iifar · CC BY-SA 3.0 EE2011 · Kabala manor house, 2011 Iifar · CC BY-SA 3.0 EE2011 · Kabala manor five-arched granary, 2011 Iifar · CC BY-SA 3.0 EE2011 · Kabala manor park, 2011 Iifar · CC BY-SA 3.0 EE
