Manor · Harju County
Tuhala Toal
The early-classical main house was built around 1800 and lavishly rebuilt in the 1880s. After the fire of 1905 it was only partly restored, and in 1938 much of it was sold off as building material. Cartographer Ludwig August Mellin, author of the first atlas of Livonia, was born here.
Built / first recorded c. 1800 / 1880s
Style Neoclassicism
Condition Lost 1905–1938
German name Toal Today
Only ruins of the main house remain, along with a granary, smithy and the owners’ funeral chapel.
Owners von Delwig16. saj von Mellin1693–1863 von Lilienfeldt1863–1919 Good to know Ludwig August Mellin (1754–1835) made the first atlas of Livonia; a memorial stone to him stands in the park. Paul von Lilienfeldt-Toal was deputy governor of St Petersburg and a pioneer of sociology in Tsarist Russia. In this karst country the river runs underground for 1.5 km above the manor, and the nearby Witch’s Well overflows in spring. Photos through time before 1905 · The main house before the 1905 fire1905 · Tuhala manor after the manor burnings of the revolution1905 · Tuhala manor (Toal), main house after the fire1905 · Tuhala manor (Toal), main house after the fire1906 · The burned-out house, 19061906 · Tuhala manor after the 1905 burningsarchive · Tuhala manor (castle)archive · Tuhala manorarchive · Tuhala manorNearby
The buildings are stylized impressions, not surveyed models. Facts: mois.ee, Museum of Estonian Architecture, ERR, Wikipedia. Photos: MuIS and Wikimedia Commons, credited with each photo.
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