Reaching back to the Middle Ages, Kammeri manor is first recorded in the mid-1500s and took its German name from its owners at the time, the Dückers. In the 1600s it belonged to the Fersens, after the Great Northern War to the Rennenkampffs and the Helmersens, and from 1856 until 1919 to the Stadens; the last owner was Alexander von Staden. The house was a one-story stone building from the late 1700s.
After expropriation a school moved into the house, which was raised to two stories for it in the 1960s. In 2009 the house was demolished and a new school building took its place. Several outbuildings survive, most of them along the roads east of the house.
Owners
Dücker16. saj
von Fersen17. saj
von Rennenkampff18. saj
von Helmersen
von Staden1856–1919
Good to know
The geologist Gregor von Helmersen (1803–1885), who compiled the first geological map of northwestern Russia and was the first to study Estonian oil shale, was born here.
The West German diplomat Berndt von Staden (born 1919), later ambassador to the United States, spent his childhood here.
Its German name was Duckershof.
Photos through time
archive · Kammeri school, the pond and an outbuilding Eesti Rahva Muuseum, ERM Fk 2879:164 · CC BY-NCarchive · Kammeri school in the former manor house Eesti Rahva Muuseum, ERM Fk 2879:315 · CC BY-NC