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Kiltsi Manor

Kiltsi mõis · German: Ass, Schloss

Kiltsi in Virumaa is a manor built on top of a castle. A small medieval vassal castle of the Gilsen family, who gave the estate its name, was wrecked in the Livonian War; in the 1790s Major Hermann Johann von Benckendorff raised an early classicist house on its ruins, so the great vaulted cellars below and a round tower room with gun slits still belong to the old stronghold. From 1816 the estate was owned by the navigator Adam Johann von Krusenstern, leader of the first Russian voyage around the world, who died here in 1846. Since 1920 the 'castle' has housed the Kiltsi manor school.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

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Virumaa Kiltsi on linnuse peale ehitatud mõis. Gilsenite, kelle järgi mõis nime sai, väike keskaegne vasallilinnus purustati Liivi sõjas; 1790. aastatel ehitas major Hermann Johann von Benckendorff selle varemetele varaklassitsistliku härrastemaja, nii et all asuvad suured võlvkeldrid ja laskeavadega ümartorni keldriruum pärinevad veel vanast linnusest. Alates 1816. aastast kuulus mõis meresõitjale Adam Johann von Krusensternile, esimese Vene ümbermaailmareisi juhile, kes suri siin 1846. aastal. 1920. aastast asub lossis Kiltsi mõisakool.

Map of the area around Kiltsi Manor
59.07750° N, 26.19435° E · Väike-Maarja parish · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: https://mois.ee/mois/kiltsi ↗

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