Risti Manor

The area around the cross was among the areas of the Padis Monastery in the Middle Ages. The estate (German k Kreuzhof) was established there in the early 17th century. In the 17th century, the estate belonged to the Lohns and the Hövelns. In the 18th century (after the North War), the estate moved into the ownership of the von Mohrenschildts, in whose hands it remained until the end of the 19th century. From 1887 until the 1919 transfer, the estate was in the possession of the noble family of the von Stackelbergs. The estate's baroque wooden main building was probably completed quite soon after the North War in the first half of the 18th century. The building with a semi-kelp roof was characterized by a high roof as well as square windows. The 17th century cannot really be ruled out as a construction period, since the area around Padis was not very looted in the North War (as opposed to the rest of Estonia). Probably in the 19th century, the building was rebuilt in many ways - the distribution of the windows was changed to six-square, and a large two-windowed building slice was built on the central part of the façade.