Manor · Rapla County · Kehtna
Kehtna Kechtel
The two-story early classicist main house was finished around the 1790s. Rebels burned it in 1905, but the von Lilienfelds rebuilt it with a new mansard roof and Neo-Baroque stucco. The future outlaw Rummu Jüri once worked here as a valet.
Built / first recorded 1790s · rebuilt 1906–1910
Style Early classicism, rebuilt in Neo-Baroque style
Condition Rebuilt
German name Kechtel Today
The main house stands again by its pond and park, partly restored by private owners.
Owners von Vietinghoff1777–1824 von Benckendorff1824–1874 von Lilienfeld1874–1919 Good to know Folk-hero outlaw Rummu Jüri worked at the manor as a valet in his youth. A pond lies in front of the house, and a half-kilometer avenue leads toward Rapla. The house later held a home economics school and a state-farm technical college. Photos through time 1906 · Kehtna after the manor burnings of 19051928 · Kehtna manor across the pondbefore 1940 · Kehtna main house on the lakeshore before the wararchive · The Kehtna porticoarchive · Kehtna manorarchive · Kehtna manorarchive · Kehtna manor Raplasarchive · Kehtna interior before the firearchive · The Kehtna main house, rear facadearchive · The Kehtna main house, rear facade1965 · Kehtna manor2011 · The Kehtna main house, 2011Nearby
The buildings are stylized impressions, not surveyed models. Facts: mois.ee, Museum of Estonian Architecture, ERR, Wikipedia. Photos: MuIS and Wikimedia Commons, credited with each photo.
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