Lõve became a manor of its own in 1718, when Caspar von Dreiling’s estate was divided. In the 1750s it passed to the Anreps, who held it until 1919. Probably in the 1760s or 1770s one of the grandest Baroque manor houses of its time in southern Estonia rose here: a full two-story house whose half-hipped roof was built as a mansard, fitting a third floor beneath it. Its facade decoration was strikingly similar to neighboring Helme, suggesting the same master builder. The interiors were adorned with Rococo-cut door panels and fanlights with Baroque carvings. Standing on a high hill at the end of its avenue, the house made a majestic impression from afar.
Of the house only low wall corners on an overgrown foundation remain. Several outbuildings and a fine park survive. The overgrown Anrep family cemetery lies in a grove half a kilometer to the northeast.
Owners
von Dreiling1718
von Anrep1750. aastad–1919
Good to know
The house was badly damaged in the Estonian War of Independence and was pulled down for building material in the late 1920s.
Southwest of the house, across the pond, stood a smithy restyled in the later 1800s as a Swiss-style cottage with wooden fretwork.
