Alu, Estonie

This airticle is aboot the smaw burgh in Rapla Pairish, Rapla Coonty. For the veelage in Tõstamaa Pairish, Pärnu Coonty, see Alu, Pärnu Coonty.
Alu
Smaw burgh
Alu Manor
Alu Manor
Alu is located in Estonie
Alu
Alu
Location in Estonie
Coordinates: 59°01′25″N 24°45′51″E / 59.02361°N 24.76417°E / 59.02361; 24.76417
KintraEstonie
CoontyRapla Coonty
MunicipalityRapla Pairish
First mentioned1241[1]
Population
 • Totalca 950

Alu is a smaw burgh (Estonie: alevik) in Rapla Pairish, Rapla Coonty, Estonie. It's locatit aboot 3 km (2 mi) northwast o the toun o Rapla. Alu haes a population o ca 950.[2]

Alu wis first mentioned in 1241 as Alafæ veelage in the Danish Census Book.

Alu manor

Alu Manor wis first mentioned in 1409 as Alven (later kent as Allo). The present main building, designed bi Paul Friedrich Wilhelm Alisch, is ane o the best ensaumples o Neo-Gothic style in Estonie. The biggin is surroondit bi a 11 ha pairk wi seiven ponds. Efter the dispossession frae 1923 tae 1955 a local grammar schuil operatit in the main biggin. Syne 1999 it hooses a trainin centre for the Estonie Defence League.[1][3]

Notable fowk

  • Magnus Gabriel Bernhard von Brevern (1825–1878), Baltic German militar commander who servit unner the Roushie Empire at the Roushie-Turkis War.
  • Priit Võigemast (born 1980), Estonie film, telly an stage actor

See an aw

  • Leet o pailaces an manor hooses in Estonie

References

  1. ↑ a b "Alu alevik" (in Estonian). eestigiid.ee. Retrieved 23 Julie 2012.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
  2. ↑ "Alu alevik" (in Estonian). Rapla vald. Retrieved 23 Julie 2012. freemit airtin in |publisher= (help)CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
  3. ↑ "Alu mõis" (in Estonian). Kaitseliit. Archived frae the original on 7 August 2012. Retrieved 23 Julie 2012.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)

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