Sēja Manor

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Sēja Manor
Sēja manor.jpg
The ruins of Sēja Manor main building in 2011.
Sēja manor is located in Latvia
Sēja manor
Sēja manor
Location within Latvia
General information
Architectural styleruins
Town or citySaulkrasti Municipality,
CountryLatvia
Coordinates57°11′54.5″N 24°35′28.8″E / 57.198472°N 24.591333°E / 57.198472; 24.591333Coordinates: 57°11′54.5″N 24°35′28.8″E / 57.198472°N 24.591333°E / 57.198472; 24.591333
Completed1766, rebuilt in 1883—1885

Sēja Manor (Latvian: Sējas muiža; German: Zögenhof) is a knight's manor in Saulkrasti Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia. It was formerly situated in Kreis Riga in the Governorate of Livonia.[1]

History

Sēja Manor (Gut Zögenhof) land holdings marked with number 14 on the 1905 map.[2]

In 1567 the manor was acquired by Johan Seyge (Zöge). The Latvian name of Sēja manor comes from the landlord's surname. The present ruined manor house was first built in 1766. From 1751 until the Latvian agrarian reform in 1920s the manor belonged to the noble Dunten family, which was related to the famous Münchhausen family. Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen spent several years in Livonia and in 1744 married Jacobine von Dunten, daughter of baron von Dunten.[3] In 1883–1885 manor house was rebuilt, the sophisticated neo-Gothic decorations has been added to a modest mansion.[1]

After state of Latvia confiscated manor from von Dunten family property was divided into smaller land lots and in manor house a club was established. In soviet Latvia from 1963 to 1968, the manor house hosted club of the collective farm "Komunārs" and also library operated there. Presently building is severely dilapidated and in state of ruins.[1]

Besides main manor house property also has a granary and a water tower.

Archaeology

Artifacts from ancient stone box grave culture has been found on Sēja Manor land.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c (in Latvian) Sējas pils (drupas)
  2. ^ Excerpt from the map Wegekarte des Rigaschen Kreises mit den Kirchspiels- und Gutsgrenzen (1905).
  3. ^ Jacobine von Dunten
  4. ^ (in German) Jakob Ozols Die baltische Steinkistengräberkultur, Volume 16 of Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen. Publisher De Gruyter, 219 pages 1969
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