Manor
Abja Manor
Catherine the Great visited Abja in 1764, around the time the stone manor house, granary and carriage house that still stand were built. Later the Stackelbergs earned a good name: the baron's sisters taught the farmhands' children to read. When the last owner, Karl von Stackelberg, was evicted from his house in 1923, not one peasant or servant agreed to help put him out. The building was then converted into a school, and from 1923 to 1930 the Abja Culture-Technics Gymnasium worked there. The baron's children had lived in a separate young ladies' house sixty metres from the main building.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Katariina II külastas Abja mõisa 1764. aastal – umbes samal ajal kerkisid tänini näha olevad kivist häärber, ait ja tõllakuur. Hiljem pälvisid Stackelbergid hea maine: paruni õed õpetasid moonakate lastele lugemist. Kui viimane mõisnik Karl von Stackelberg 1923. aastal häärberist välja tõsteti, ei läinud ükski talupoeg ega teenija teda välja tõstma. Seejärel ehitati maja ümber kooliks ning aastatel 1923–1930 tegutses seal Abja Kultuurtehnika Ühisgümnaasium. Paruni lapsed olid elanud peahoonest kuuekümne meetri kaugusel asunud mõisapreilide majas.