The earliest records of Pajaka date from 1452. In the 1500s and 1600s it belonged to the Taubes, and in the late 1600s to the Wrangells. In 1808 Peter von Stackelberg acquired the manor and had it built up in the classical style. The new house was one story at the ends and two in the middle; the central bay was decorated with a closely stepped gable and medallions, with pedimented projections at the ends. A dead-straight avenue two kilometers long led from the Tallinn–Pärnu road, crossing the Kasari River just before the house.
A new building has been raised on the site of the ruins. The avenue to the manor survives, but not its bridge over the Kasari River; the two-story granary survives in roughly its original form.
Owners
Taube16. saj–17. saj
von Wrangell17. saj lõpp
Zoege18. saj
von Knorring18. saj
von Mohrenschildt18. saj–1808
von Stackelberg1808–1889
von Uexküll1889
Markgraf1919
Good to know
In the 1960s the walls of the main house still stood to a large extent.
The last half kilometer of the avenue was lined with trees.
The modern Vardi–Pajaka–Riisipere road crosses the Kasari a couple of hundred meters downstream of the old bridge.
