Leetse was founded in the 1600s on the high east coast of the Pakri peninsula. In the 1700s it belonged to the Scharenbergs, the Uexküll-Güldenbands and the Essens, from 1800 for more than seventy years to the Ramms, and from 1872 until 1919 to the Ungern-Sternbergs. The Historicist main house, built by the Ramms around the 1860s, had an articulated facade with arched windows, and a ceremonial stairway descended from its back toward the sea. A half-kilometer avenue led to the house’s center line through a segmental-arched gatehouse before the forecourt.
Only the walls of the main house remain. The segmental-arched gatehouse and the steward’s house survive, the latter restored; the manor center is privately owned.
Owners
von Scharenberg18. saj
von Uexküll-Güldenband18. saj
von Essen18. saj–1800
von Ramm1800–1872
von Ungern-Sternberg1872–1919
Good to know
After World War II the manor center, like the whole Pakri peninsula, belonged to the Soviet military.
The main house stood largely intact until the fire of 1993.
Laulasmaa manor was split off from Leetse’s lands in 1787.
