Lasila is a village in

Rakvere Parish Rakvere Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. Rakvere municipality surrounds the city of Rakvere and is located in north east Estonia. The shape of the municipality resembles to a butterfly. Rakvere Parish is one ...

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, in northeastern

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Lasila manor

Lasila estate dates from the end of the 17th century. The current building was erected in 1862 in a romantic,

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 ...

style. The interiors were restored in 1976. Embryologist

Karl Ernst von Baer Karl Ernst Ritter von Baer Edler von Huthorn (; – ) was a Baltic German scientist and explorer. Baer was a naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and is considered a, or the, founding father of embryology. He was a m ...

spent his early childhood at the manor house, which belonged to his paternal uncle, and a monument commemorating him stands in front of the building. Today, the manor is used as a school.

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Lasila manor
at Estonian Manors Portal Villages in Lääne-Viru County Kreis Wierland Manor houses in Estonia {{LääneViru-geo-stub

Lasila manor

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