Keila-Joa is a

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() in

Lääne-Harju Parish Lääne-Harju Parish () is a rural Municipalities of Estonia, municipality in northern Estonia. It is a part of Harju County. The municipality has a population of 12,865 (as of 1 January 2019) and covers an area of 645.71 km2. The population ...

Harju County Harju County ( or ''Harjumaa''), is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla Count ...

, northern

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. It has a population of 373 (as of 1 January 2019). The Estonian name Keila-Joa literally means "

Keila Keila () is a town and an Municipalities of Estonia, urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia, southwest of Tallinn. As of 2021, the town has a population of 10,499 inhabitants. Keila is also the location of administrative b ...

Falls", named after the river, distinguishing it from the town of

. The borough is home to the third most powerful waterfall in Estonia,

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. In Keila-Joa there is also a small hydroelectric power plant with a capacity of 365 kW.

Keila-Joa Manor

There has been a manor house on the site of Keila-Joa manor () since the 17th century. The present manor house was built in 1831–1833 and designed by St. Petersburg architect

Andrei Stackenschneider Andrei Ivanovich Stakenschneider (also spelled Stuckenschneider; ; – ) was a Russian architect. His eclectic approach and competence in period styles are manifest in ten palaces built to his design in St. Petersburg. He is often credited with ...

. The manor represents one of the earliest examples of

neo-Gothic Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ...

architecture in Estonia. It was built for the family of count

Alexander von Benckendorff Konstantin Alexander Karl Wilhelm Christoph Graf von Benckendorff (, – ) was a Russian History of Russian military ranks, cavalry general and statesman of Baltic German descent. He was also the adjutant general of Alexander I of Russia, Alex ...

(whose graves can be found in the park on the opposite bank of

Keila River The Keila is a river in northern Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, ...

, in

Meremõisa Meremõisa is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. Meremõisa is about west of the capital Tallinn, west of Keila-Joa, and next to Lohusalu Bay, which is part of the Gulf of Finland. It borders with Laulasmaa, ...

) and the building saw many prominent guests during the Imperial years, among others the Russian royal family, famous soprano

Henriette Sontag Henriette Sontag, born Gertrude Walpurgis Sontag, and, after her marriage, entitled Henriette, Countess Rossi (3 January 1806 – 17 June 1854), was a German operatic soprano of great international renown. She possessed a sweet-toned, lyrical voi ...

and composer

Alexei Lvov Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov (Russian: ''Алексей Фёдорович Львов'') ( – ) was a Russian composer., best known for the composition of the Imperial Russian National Anthem, ''God Save the Tsar''. Biography Lvov was born i ...

. From 1927 to 1940 it was used by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. During the

Soviet occupation During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939. These included the eastern regions of Poland (incorporated into three differe ...

it was used by the Red Army.

References

External links

Keila-Joa
at Estonian Manors Portal
Keila-Joa.info
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