In the Middle Ages the Kuimetsa area belonged to St. Michael’s Convent in Tallinn. First recorded in 1345, the manor was probably built in the early 1400s as a three-story tower castle with small corbelled turrets at two corners. The castle was wrecked in the Livonian War in 1574, yet the tower still stood at full height in the 1820s. Later the manor belonged to the Estonian Knighthood. In the 1700s a small one-story stone house was built; it was burned in 1905 and rebuilt in much the same form. After expropriation a school moved in, but in 1941 the building burned and was left in ruins.
Of the house only a small mound of rubble with a few wall fragments remains. Only the ground floor of the tower castle survives, buried under a rubble mound and used as a cellar. The large park and several altered outbuildings survive; the granary holds a community center.
Owners
Mihkli kloosterkeskaeg–16. saj
Eestimaa rüütelkond1919
Good to know
A drawing made in the 1820s shows the tower castle still at full height.
The manor granary now houses a community center.
Its German name was Kuimetz.
Photos through time
1827 · Kuimetsa tower castle in 1827, drawing by Carl Faehlmann Carl Faehlmann · Public domain1906 · Kuimetsa manor after the burning of manors in the 1905 uprising Nikolai Königsfest · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 13814:9/a F 14395 · CC BY1906 · Kuimetsa manor after the burning of manors in the 1905 uprising Nikolai Königsfest · Eesti Ajaloomuuseum, AM _ 13814:9/b F 14396 · CC BY
