Dating from the Middle Ages, Kasti manor is first recorded in 1488, when it belonged to the Uexkülls. It was then built as a vassal castle, whose walls and vaults survive inside the base story of the present house. In the mid-1700s the manor passed to the Baranoffs, who built a two-story Baroque house reusing the soundest parts of the medieval castle. In 1822 Konstantin von Sivers became the owner and had the house remodeled in Classical style: slightly projecting wings were added, triangular pediments crowned the central and side projections, and the side projections received three-part Venetian windows. Later a balcony on cast-iron brackets was added at the center of the facade.
In Soviet times the house held a collective farm office, a tavern and a shop. Today it is privately owned. Most outbuildings also survive, though many new buildings have gone up in and around the complex.
Owners
von Uexküll1488–18. saj keskpaik
von Baranoff18. saj keskpaik
von Sivers1822
von Stackelberg1900–1919
Good to know
At the back of the house one window opening clearly shows the medieval vault cutting across the present window.
The master builder at Kasti probably also worked at neighboring Haimre, since the steward’s houses of the two manors are very alike.
To tell it apart from Uue-Kasti, the manor was also called Vana-Kasti in the 1800s.
