Count Alexander von Benckendorff’s summer castle above the Keila waterfall, designed by Andrei Stackenschneider in 1831–1833 in the English neo-Gothic style. After decades of military use it was restored in the 2010s.
One of Estonia’s earliest neo-Gothic manor houses, completed in 1833 to a design by Andrei Stackenschneider of St Petersburg.
The older Meremõisa house was left unfinished and its walls kept in the park as romantic ruins.
The towered stables and barns along the approach were designed to hold cannons.
Photos through time
1833 · View of Keila-Joa castlele Theodor Gehlhaar · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 7488 G 621 · CC BY1833 · View of Keila-Joa castlele Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 7496 G 628 · CC BY1834 · Keila-Joa view August Matthias Hagen · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 13687:28 G 6255 · CC BY-NC-SA1857 · Meremõisa ruins and Keila-Joa castle Wilhelm Siegfried Stavenhagen · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 14139 G 6906:14 · Public domain1860 · View of Keila-Joa waterfall Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 6996 G 879 · CC BY1861 · View of Keila-Joa castlele Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 6997 G 880 · CC BY1866 · Schloss Fall in Stavenhagen’s album Wilhelm Siegfried Stavenhagen · Public domainc. 1900 · Lithograph of the castle and park Unknown · Public domainarchive · Keila-Joa castle. Album leaf Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 7031 G 954 · Public domainarchive · View of Keila-Joa castlele. Fall Lorenz Heinrich Petersen · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 7085 G 102 · CC BYarchive · Keila-Joa castle Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 7507 G 638 · CC BYarchive · Keila-Joa manor. Exterior Karl Hugo Akel · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 12854:660 F 5497:660 · CC BY
