Aru mõis

The damage breaks down

Worthy ..

Abandoned and hay grown

Place left behind

Mälgi küla, Aru mõis, Konguta, Tartumaa, 58.269039, 26.320805 58 ° 16 '8.54 ", 26 ° 19' 14.90" Aru Manor was founded in southern Estonia after the subjugation of Sweden in 1632, when these lands were inestituated and passed into the possession of Per Sparrel. After the end of the Northern War, the manor belonged to the Osterwaldts, from the mid-19th century the noble family von Mühlenov. In 1913, the Estonian, Jaan Pruyus, bought the manor, in whose possession the manor was until the 1919 nationalization. Thus, the manor received more than seven percent of the knightly lands that fell into the hands of Estonians. The manor single-storey house with a flat roof was built on the manor, presumably in the 1840s. Only a one-story front part of the building was built at that time, the back two-story part was supposedly older than the front one (presumably, the back part was built back in the 18th century. The exterior of the building is very simple, it was decorated by the edge, a stylish window-door in the era style classicism (changed in the 1970s). In front of it was later built a veranda in the style of the era of classicism. There were many secondary buildings on the manor. After the Second World War, the manor house was used as a collective farm office. I concealed the veranda was destroyed, a stylish window boarded up. In addition, another annex was added to the building. In the 1990s, the manor was returned to the heirs - Pruus. Some outbuildings have been preserved on the manor - of which the most representative is a brick barn. the barn is an arcade with three vaulted openings, in addition, cruciform openings adorn the appearance