The earliest records of Paunküla date from 1493. In the 1500s and 1600s it belonged to the Vietinghoffs and the Tiesenhausens, and from 1754 until 1919 to the Hagemeisters. The manor center was probably moved to its present site in the early 1800s, when a one-story classical main house was built there. A portico of four grouped columns graced the center of the hip-roofed house, and the attic was designed as a low-windowed mezzanine. The house was burned in 1905 and rebuilt around 1910 in altered form as a flat-roofed Historicist building.
The house survives as raised to two stories in the 1950s and holds a care home. Several much-altered outbuildings survive, along with early-20th-century gateposts topped by ornamental balls.
Owners
von Vietinghoff16. saj
von Tiesenhausen17. saj
von Delwig18. saj
von Kaulbars18. saj
von Derfelden18. saj–1754
von Hagemeister1754–1919
Good to know
The original manor center stood in Kiruvere village, 4 km east of the Tallinn–Tartu road.
The outbuildings’ paired-column portals resembled those at Uue-Harmi, suggesting the same master builder.
The last owner before expropriation was Julius von Hagemeister.
