Käru was split off from neighboring Lelle manor in the mid-1700s. The old main house, later used as the steward’s house, is a long, archaic timber building with a half-hipped roof. The manor belonged to the von Staudens, later the von Ditmars and, from 1898, the von Rentelns. The long new Neo-Renaissance main house was built in 1878 to designs by the Riga architect Robert Pflug: mostly one story, two stories in the center, with a four-story tower at the left end. A Gothic Revival smithy with corner turrets, like a small castle, also survives.
The house was burned in 1905 and rebuilt in simplified form, without its end tower. A school worked in the building from the 1920s until 2001; today it is privately owned.
Owners
von Stauden18. saj
von Ditmar1898
von Renteln1898–1919
Good to know
The modern Rapla–Türi highway runs between the old and new main houses, through the former park.
The historical road from Käru to Vändra survives as a winding gravel road.
The last owner before expropriation in 1919 was Karoline von Renteln.
