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On the edge of C\u0113sis stands Kalna Manor \u2014 a historic property with many names and an even more colourful past. Also known as Bergenhof, Kallenhof, Kalnenhof, or Kalnamoise, this place holds secrets stretching back to the time of the Livs. 1688. On a map drawn in 1688 by land surveyor Johann Heinrich Kelch, the manor grounds are marked as “Kalnamoise”, pointing to a possible Liv presence in the area.<\/p>\n

The manor’s official history begins in 1561, when the last Master of the Livonian Order, Gotthard Kettler, granted it as a fief to Reinhold II Fittinghof. Just three years later, however, the manor passed into the ownership of Bartholomew Patkul, along with 17 farmsteads that had previously belonged to the\u0100rai\u0161i or V\u012bb\u0113ni parish. Interestingly, there is also another account of the manor’s origins \u2014 in that same year of 1561, on Martinmas, Sigismund Seklerns received four villages in the\u0100rai\u0161i district from that same Master Kettler. It is possible that we see here how the fates of two manors \u2014 Kalna and Zeklers \u2014 became intertwined from the very beginning. In the mid-17th century the manor was acquired by C\u0113sis citizen Wilhelm Schleyer, whose family ran it for nearly a century. 1782. In 1782, Kalna Manor, together with Zeklers Manor, passed into the ownership of Sigismund Adam von Wolf for the impressive sum of 20,000 Albert thalers. In the years that followed, the manor changed hands several times, until it was purchased in 1902 by the South Vidzeme Agricultural and Cooperative Society. In the early 18th century, Kalna Manor became a genuine centre of agricultural science, with test fields for fertiliser trials and breeding of pedigree cattle, horses, and poultry. The manor complex reflects the building traditions of 20th century manor estates \u2014 a two-storey stone mansion with 14 rooms and a romantic park that echoes the spirit of a bygone era. <\/p>\n

After the founding of independent Latvia, the manor survived the land reform period and was not divided up.<\/p>\n

During the Soviet years, Kalna Manor housed the dormitories of C\u0113sis 1st Secondary School, and later various institutions, including “Agroprojekts”, “TERMOPLAST”, and the Vidzeme Regional Branch of the Latvian Road Transport Association. <\/p>\n

This description was put together using materials from:
\nIlma Z\u0101l\u012bte, Mg. hist., and the C\u0113sis Rotary Club project “A Walk Around the Manors of C\u0113sis”;
\nthe collections of C\u0113sis Castle Museum and C\u0113sis Central Library.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t[\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″]\t\t

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The estate grounds also included the villa “Wildpark”, owned by K\u0101rlis von Petersens \u2014 a doctor who, after many years of practice in R\u016bjiena, worked as the city physician of C\u0113sis. On 29 July 1919, Otto Goldfelds-Zelti\u0146\u0161 continued forming the 2nd North Latvia Squadron at Kalna Manor. By early August, before it set off for Riga, the unit had 6 officers and 118 cavalry soldiers, but only 11 horses. This unit later fought successfully in defence of Latvian independence. <\/p>\n

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  • 1561: Kalna Manor is granted as a fief to Reinhold II Fittinghof by Livonian Order Master Gotthard Kettler.<\/li>\n
  • 1564: Reinhold II Fittinghof sells the manor to Bartholomew Patkul.<\/li>\n
  • 1640: C\u0113sis citizen Wilhelm Schleyer becomes the owner of the manor.<\/li>\n
  • 1688: Land surveyor Johann Heinrich Kelch draws a map in which the manor grounds are marked as “Kalnamoise”.<\/li>\n
  • 1782: Johann Wilhelm von Bornemann sells the manor to Sigismund Adam IV von Wolf.<\/li>\n
  • 1795: The manor is mortgaged to Anton Christian H\u00fclsen.<\/li>\n
  • 1819: The manor is taken over by Hermann Friedrich H\u00fclsen.<\/li>\n
  • 1837: The property is acquired by Johann Joseph Gotthard Otto von Ruttenberg-Orgies.<\/li>\n
  • 1847: Kalna Manor is annexed to the town of C\u0113sis.<\/li>\n
  • 1867: The manor comes into the ownership of Johann Theodor Apping.<\/li>\n
  • 1902: Kalna Manor is purchased by the South Vidzeme Agricultural and Cooperative Society.<\/li>\n
  • 1906: Farmer Gustav Karl David Rosenfl\u00e4nzer becomes the manager of the manor.<\/li>\n
  • 1939: The 2nd North Latvia Squadron is formed at the manor. <\/li>\n
  • 1940: Red Army soldiers are stationed at the manor.<\/li>\n
  • During the Soviet occupation, the manor houses the dormitories of C\u0113sis 1st Secondary School, and later other institutions.<\/li>\n
  • Today the building stands empty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1589,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[204,312],"product_tag":[243,313],"class_list":{"0":"post-1988","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-cesis-house","7":"product_cat-manor","8":"product_tag-manor","9":"product_tag-school","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"shipping-taxable","14":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}