Manor
Tõstamaa Manor
German: Waist
The last owner of Tõstamaa before 1919 was a scholar of world renown: Alexander Wilhelm Staël von Holstein, an orientalist and expert in Sanskrit. The two-storey early classicist house was finished in 1804 for the Helmersen family and remodelled in historicist style in the 1860s–1870s by Wilhelm Fromhold Staël von Holstein, who gave it a flat metal roof, six Ionic columns at the centre and arched windows; the ceiling paintings from that time have recently been restored. Since 1921 a school has worked in the manor house, today Tõstamaa secondary school, and since 2016 the building also holds the Tõstamaa museum.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Tõstamaa viimane omanik enne 1919. aastat oli maailmakuulus teadlane – orientalist ja sanskriti keele tundja Alexander Wilhelm Staël von Holstein. Kahekorruseline varaklassitsistlik peahoone valmis 1804. aastal Helmersenide ajal ning 1860.–1870. aastatel lasi Wilhelm Fromhold Staël von Holstein selle historitsistlikus stiilis ümber ehitada: hoone sai lameda plekk-katuse, keskosa kuus joonia kapiteeliga sammast ja kaaraknad; sellest ajast pärinevad laemaalingud on hiljuti restaureeritud. Alates 1921. aastast tegutseb peahoones kool, praegu Tõstamaa Keskkool, ning 2016. aastast asub seal ka Tõstamaa muuseum.