Võhmuta was founded in the later 1600s and was one of Estonia’s most stylish small classical manors. The one-story timber Baroque house, probably from the later 1700s, was remodeled in the early 1800s into a classical building with a flat tin roof and a four-column pedimented portico. Around 1800–1810 a matching granary and stable-and-carriage house were built along the forecourt, and opposite the house a so-called triumphal gate – a classical gatehouse unique in Estonia, thought to commemorate the War of 1812. Before expropriation the manor belonged to the Zoege von Manteuffels.
Much of the complex has decayed: the stable and carriage house has been altered and the granary is in ruins. The triumphal gate has lost several columns; the private owner has shored up the endangered gatehouse.
Owners
Zoege von Manteuffel1919
Good to know
The triumphal gate’s opening was flanked by paired columns under a tall pediment.
In the mid-1800s a wing was added and the right end of the house raised to two stories.
The Zoege von Manteuffel family cemetery lies half a kilometer south at the edge of the forest.
