Pandivere is a village in

Väike-Maarja Parish Väike-Maarja Parish ( et, Väike-Maarja vald) is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Lääne-Viru County. It has a population of 5,421 (as of 1 January 2009) and an area of 457.39 km². Settlements ;Small boroughs Kiltsi, Rakke, Simuna, ...

Lääne-Viru County Lääne-Viru County ( et, Lääne-Viru maakond or ''Lääne-Virumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is in northern Estonia, on the south coast of the Gulf of Finland. In Estonian, ''lääne'' means western and ''ida'' means east or eastern ...

, in northeastern

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. It has a population of 101 (as of 1 January 2011). The surrounding upland

Pandivere Heights Pandivere Upland (or Pandivere Heights, et, Pandivere kõrgustik) is hilly area of higher elevation in Northern Estonia. It contains the highest point of Northern Estonia: Emumägi (166 m). The area is named for the village of Pandivere. R ...

() is named after the village. Poet and writer

Jakob Liiv Jakob Liiv (28 February 1859 Alatskivi Parish, Tartu County – 17 January 1938 Rakvere) was an Estonian writer and playwright. His younger brother was writer Juhan Liiv. After 1897 he was a teacher at Triigi-Avispea School in Väike-Maarja Pa ...

worked as a schoolteacher in Pandivere from 1884 to 1886.

Pandivere Manor

Pandivere Manor (german: Pantifer) was established in 1801 by detaching it from the nearby Kärsa Manor. It belonged to the

Rennenkampff Rennenkampff was a noble Baltic nobility, Baltic German family. It was of Westphalian origin and originated in Osnabrück. They held the title of ''Edler''. History The Rennenkampff family was originally called Remmenkamp, the family was of Germ ...

s. Nowadays, since a fire in the 1980s, the single-storey main building lies in ruins.

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Pandivere Manor
at Estonian Manors Portal Villages in Lääne-Viru County {{LääneViru-geo-stub