Lehtse mõis

A very interesting piece of history.

The ruins have been standing for 90 years, it is a pity that such a beautiful building was abandoned.

There are too few debris, there’s almost nothing to look at. You can’t climb onto the tower, onto the top floor. Then you can get into the basement. I managed to do this in clean clothes. Inside, it seemed like they had made repairs, walls, the ceiling. The tunnel leads to the tower, there is even light at the end of the tunnel. There are also several rooms, but there is nothing interesting there. I still liked it.

The bad thing is that there is no reference at the spot.

Tõõrakõrve, Tapa vald, Lääne-Virumaa, 59.272302, 25.860175 59 ° 16 '20.29 ", 25 ° 51' 36.63 The earliest references to Lehts Manor are dated 1467. After the Northern War, initially the manor belonged to von Derfelden, later, the manor passed into the possession of von Rosen. Since 1783, the manor began to belong to the noble family of von Heiningen-Huenedam. The last owner of the manor before the period of nationalization was Friedries von Heiningen-Huen. Presumably, in the first half of the 19th century, a simple one-story stone manor house was built on the manor. At the end of the same century, the building was completely rebuilt, now the building was built in the Neo-Gothic style, a large extension in the same style was added to its right side. A multi-level pediment, lancet windows and a powerful five-story defensive tower were added to the building. Nowadays, only ruins have been preserved from the construction, the basement and the nondescript massive tower have been preserved, all other parts of the building are destroyed. Of the many secondary buildings of the manor, only a few have survived. Around the manor house, only some fragments of the wall were preserved, aside, a drying room was preserved in the field.