Manors and roads
The real manors of Harrien and Wierland, and the roads that join them to Reval.
Baronland is the real country: one tile is about 25 m, and Reval (Tallinn) is at its centre. The eight starting manors are real Swedish-era manors of Harrien and Wierland. Every one has a road to Reval (open the map with Tab).
Maardu Maart · Jõelähtme, Harjumaa
| Household | von Fersen |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Taube family from 1529; Count Lennart Torstenson from 1647; Major-General Fabian von Fersen from 1663, then his Fersen heirs until 1710. |
| The manor | Two-storey stone baroque house built in the 1660s for Fabian von Fersen, designed by Jacob Staël von Holstein. |
| Road to Reval | 15.3 km, to the Viru gate |
Its sister houses at Palmse and Aa were wrecked in the Great Northern War; Maardu’s survived.
Kolga Kolk · Kuusalu, Harjumaa
| Household | Stenbock |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Granted by King Johan III to Pontus De la Gardie in 1581; sold in 1667 to Christina Catharina De la Gardie, wife of Count Gustaf Otto Stenbock. |
| The manor | First stone main house finished in 1642; the medieval castle was ruined in the Livonian War. |
| Road to Reval | 50.5 km, to the Viru gate |
The Stenbocks held Kolga until 1940 and bought it back in 1990.
Kiiu Kida · Kuusalu, Harjumaa
| Household | Stenbock |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Taken by the Crown in 1566; held by the De la Gardie family; sold in 1666 to Christina Catharina Stenbock. |
| The manor | A round vassal tower, the Mungatorn (Monk’s Tower), built in the early 16th century. |
| Road to Reval | 37.5 km, to the Viru gate |
Said to be the smallest vassal castle in Estonia.
Keila Kegel · Keila, Harjumaa
| Household | Scheiding |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Given to Tallinn merchant Jost Dunte in 1630; taken on pledge by Governor Philipp Scheiding in 1642; held by Baron Otto Scheiding. |
| The manor | The Order’s fortified stone house, rebuilt in the Swedish era, with a small stone manor house beside it. |
| Road to Reval | 24.8 km, to the Karja gate |
Salmon fishing was a main source of income, and a brewery was founded here in 1694.
Saku Sack · Keila, Harjumaa
| Household | von Hastfer |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Sold “completely emptied by the war” to Bernhard von Scharenberg in 1608; passed through his widow Helene Taube to the von Hastfer family. |
| The manor | No lord’s residence: a working farm of the Scharenberg seat at Sausti. |
| Road to Reval | 22.5 km, to the Karja gate |
A working estate with no resident lord. Its 1688 inventory still survives in the archive.
Harku Hark · Keila, Harjumaa
| Household | von Uexküll |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Crown land pledged out after the Order; sold in 1679 to Berend Johann von Uexküll, whose sons took over in 1702. |
| The manor | A small medieval stone castle; a two-storey baroque house was begun in the early 1700s. |
| Road to Reval | 12.2 km, to the Karja gate |
The 1710 capitulation that ended Swedish rule here was signed in its half-built house.
Padise Padis-Kloster · Harju-Madise, Harjumaa
| Household | von Ramm |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | Granted in 1622 by King Gustav II Adolf to Riga burgomaster Thomas Ramm; held by the Ramm family. |
| The manor | The Ramms lived in the converted Cistercian monastery-fortress. |
| Road to Reval | 43.7 km, to the Karja gate |
A lord’s house inside a fortified medieval abbey.
Palmse Palms · Kadrina, Virumaa
| Household | von der Pahlen |
|---|---|
| Swedish-era owners | The Metztacken family, including Landrat Arend Metztacken (held 1576–1650); from 1676/77 Gustav Christian von der Pahlen. |
| The manor | In 1697 the Pahlens began a two-storey stone baroque house, a sister design to Maardu. |
| Road to Reval | 70.9 km, to the Viru gate |
Arend Metztacken organised a postal service for the whole province.
Reval
The walled capital of the Duchy of Estonia. Its gates: the Viru gate to the east (the road from Maardu, Kiiu, Kolga and Palmse) and the Karja gate to the south (the road from Harku, Saku, Keila and Padise). Nobody may build inside the walls, and the town guard stops anyone breaking its walls and houses. The town clerk in the town hall writes serfs into the town book.