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Manor · 1504

Klooga Manor

German: Lodensee

Klooga Manor

Klooga was long called Lodijärve, after the German name of its lake, Lodensee, and the house was nicknamed Lodijärve castle. Eduard Bornhöhe probably set part of his St George's Night novel Tasuja, about the 1343 uprising, around it. The owners were generous to Keila church: in 1632 Georg Heydemann gave it a pulpit carved by Tobias Heinze, and since King Gustav II Adolf had just died and all pulpits had to be draped in black, he donated a black cover too. After the Second World War the manor was a Soviet army base, and when the troops left in 1992 the house was left in ruins.

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

Eesti keeles

Kloogat kutsuti kaua Lodijärve mõisaks järve saksakeelse nime Lodensee järgi ja peahoonet Lodijärve lossiks. Arvatakse, et Eduard Bornhöhe paigutas osa oma Jüriöö-ainelise jutustuse „Tasuja” tegevusest just selle ümbrusse. Mõisnikud olid Keila kiriku suhtes heldekäelised: 1632. aastal kinkis Georg Heydemann kirikule Tobias Heinze valmistatud kantsli ja kuna kuningas Gustav II Adolfi surma puhul tuli kõik kantslid musta riidega katta, kinkis ta ka selle katte. Pärast Teist maailmasõda asus mõisas Nõukogude väeosa ning selle lahkumisel 1992. aastal jäi hoone varemetesse.

Map of the area around Klooga Manor
59.31180° N, 24.24200° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klooga_mõis ↗

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