Ruila (german: Ruil) is a village in

Saue Parish Saue Parish ( Estonian: ''Saue vald'') is a rural municipality in Harju County, north-western Estonia. The administrative centre of Saue Parish is Saue. It is situated in the suburban area of Estonia's capital, Tallinn. After the administrat ...

Harju County Harju County ( et, Harju maakond 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 sou ...

in northern

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, and t ...

. Prior to the administrative reform of Estonian local governments in 2017, the village belonged to

Kernu Parish Kernu Parish ( et, Kernu vald) was a rural municipality in north-western Estonia. It was a part of Harju County. The municipality had a population of 2,077 (as of 1 January 2009) and covered an area of 174.65 km². The population density was ...

Ruila Manor

Ruila estate was first mentioned in 1417. The presently visible building was, however, erected in 1859 by the

Baltic German Baltic Germans (german: Deutsch-Balten or , later ) were ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their coerced resettlement in 1939, Baltic Germans have markedly declined ...

family von Bremen, who owned the estate at the time. The last member of the von Bremen family left in October 1939, as a part of the resettlement policy enforced by the

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was a non-aggression pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that enabled those powers to partition Poland between them. The pact was signed in Moscow on 23 August 1939 by German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ri ...

. The main building of the manor has a ground floor built out of stone and a second storey constructed of wood. It today houses a school, a small local museum and a riding centre.

Gallery

File:Ruila mõisa park.jpg, Park of Ruila Manor File:Ruila paisjärv.jpg, Lake Ruila

References

Villages in Harju County Kreis Harrien {{Harju-geo-stub