{"id":1990,"date":"2025-05-01T11:36:35","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T11:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/visi-stasti\/annas-minor-estate\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T17:20:19","slug":"annas-minor-estate","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/cesustasti.lv\/en\/visi-stasti\/annas-minor-estate\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna’s minor estate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Anna’s minor estate, located at the crossroads of C\u0113sis\u2013Valmiera and Prieku\u013ci roads opposite C\u0113sis airfield, is a historically rich place with surprising changes in its functions and inhabitants. Originally part of C\u0113sis castle manor, it developed into a small but bustling economic unit in the 19th century. In 1811, there was an offer in the press to rent Anna’s minor estate for 140 silver rubles per year. At that time, the manor could boast a two-story brick residential building with a spacious hall, three living rooms, two more large rooms on each floor, a kitchen and a storage room. The complex also included stables for eight horses, a carriage house and a large orchard \u2014 quite like a small paradise for the next tenant, who could keep four horses grazing in summer and winter, and four cows during the summer months. <\/p>\n

Life at the manor house in the early 19th century was quite dynamic \u2014 in 1811 its manager was Friedrich Geide, who was assisted by a whole bunch of various servants. Among them was elder J\u0101nis who came from Vecate with his family, but he didn’t stay long and returned to his homeland in 1814. <\/p>\n

Interestingly, in 1816 there was a tavern operating at the manor house, whose innkeeper was a certain J\u0101nis. It’s no coincidence that the manor and tavern became so closely connected \u2014 after all, what would a manor be without its own tavern, where you could catch your breath after work or travel? The tavern eventually became the heart of Anna’s manor house, and its innkeepers became the central figures of the community. <\/p>\n

Running the tavern was apparently quite a profitable business, as many competed for the innkeeper position \u2014 during the 19th century it was run by J\u0101nis M\u016brnieks, who had previously been a servant and moonshine distiller, as well as D\u0101vis P\u0101lens, P\u0113teris Lode, M\u0101rcis Balt\u0101bele, Andrievs Sveikulis, J\u0113kabs Melderis and J\u0101nis Eizent\u0101ls. These men’s families were possibly supplemented by local craftsmen \u2014 tailor J\u0113kabs Kalni\u0146\u0161 and shoemakers Krusti\u0146\u0161 Dievab\u0113rns and K\u0101rlis Jaunzems. In the second half of the 19th century, Anna’s manor house together with Dukuri manor was leased to Friedrich Nolje, who in 1879 further rented it to Libis Roz\u012btis. Later the manor was managed by J\u0101nis R\u0101mnieks and Hugo Voldem\u0101rs Jansons. Even in 1909 it still belonged to C\u0113sis town manor, confirming its unchanging status in the administrative division. At the beginning of the 20th century, a new element appeared on the manor’s territory \u2014 a railway hut, where around 1912\u20131916 the family of railway supervisor M\u0101rcis M\u012blenbergs lived, symbolizing the entry of the new industrial world into the old manor’s territory. <\/p>\n

The center of Anna’s minor estate in 1920 consisted of two residential houses (one of them \u2014 the former tavern), two granaries, a cellar, a threshing barn, a shed and another multi-functional building. During Latvia’s agrarian reform, Anna’s minor estate together with Dukuri manor was divided into new farms and craftsmen’s farms, thus ending its growth and change-filled history as a unified property. <\/p>\n

Several of the minor estate buildings have survived to this day, which, although more or less rebuilt, still tell the story of Anna’s minor estate former glory \u2014 the distinctive manager’s house (now “O\u0161lejas”), the tavern building (now “Krasti\u0146i”), the tavern stable (now “Kalna V\u012b\u0146audi”), the barn and shed (both now “Jaunkalni\u0146i”), the dolomite stone cowshed with a wide roof overhang.<\/p>\n

The materials used for the description are:<\/em>
Ilma Z\u0101l\u012bte, Master of History and member of C\u0113sis Rotary Club’s project “A Walk Around C\u0113sis Manors”
Collections of the Cesis Castle Museum and C\u0113sis Central Library
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