Kärstna Kerstenhof

Kärstna was split off from Helme in 1678 and passed in 1740 to the Anreps, who kept it until the land reform. Around 1900 a new wing nearly doubled the house, but a fire in 1907 left only the walls. Otto Wildau rebuilt it, while on nearby Chapel Hill an iron lion cast in Berlin still guards the Anrep graves.

Built / first recorded

rebuilt after the 1907 fire

Style

Neoclassicism with Neo-Baroque and Art Nouveau touches

Condition

Rebuilt

County

Viljandi County · Tarvastu

German name

Kerstenhof

Owners

• von Anrep1740–1919

Good to know

• An 1844 iron lion on Chapel Hill honors General Reinhold von Anrep, killed at Mohrungen in 1807.
• Chapel Hill rises 136 m and holds the ruined Anrep chapel.
• Walter von Engelhardt laid out the park in 1904.

Photos through time

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