Laitse Laitz

Laitse split off from Ruila manor in 1637 and changed owners many times over the following centuries. Woldemar von Uexküll, who bought it in 1883, built an unplastered limestone castle that looks like a medieval fortress. It later housed a youth colony and a radio station rose beside the park, yet the castle survives as one of Estonia’s finest Neo-Gothic buildings.

Built / first recorded

1892

Style

Neo-Gothic

Condition

Restored

County

Harju County · Saue

German name

Laitz

Owners

• von Uexküll1883
• von Bremen1919

Good to know

• It is built of Vasalemma limestone, locally called “marble,” and left unplastered.
• In the 1930s a radio station was built partly on the former manor park.
• None of the manor’s outbuildings survive.

Photos through time

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