Tõstamaa Keskkool
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Tõstamaa Secondary School is a secondary school
Secondary school
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 in Tõstamaa
Tõstamaa
Tõstamaa is a small borough in Pärnu County, southwestern Estonia. It is the administrative centre of Tõstamaa Parish. Tõstamaa has a population of 572 ....

, Estonia
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. It's located in a manor
Manor house
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 house since the 1921-1922 academic year. The children of Tõstamaa have been schooled for more than three centuries.

Today, the school has a faculty of about twenty-five, who teach about 260 students in the primary and secondary classrooms.

Timeline

Events in the history of the manor shoolhouse

1242 First surviving written notes about the present area of Tõstamaa, then situated in Saare Lääne (Insular–West) diocese

1534 First recorded mention of Tõhela, Ermistu, Pootsi
Pootsi
Pootsi is a village in Tõstamaa Parish, Pärnu County, in southwestern Estonia. It has a population of 79 .-Notable people:*Platon , Orthodox bishop and saint...

, Liu, and Värati

1553 First recorded mention (for socage service) of Tõstamaa (Testamaa) bishop's manor, then belonging to Koonga administrative district

1624 Helmersen family acquires Tõstamaa manor

1665 Pärnu town buys Kastna Manor from Meelius family

1680 Tõstamaa Parish founded

1684 Pootsi, Seli, and Tõstamaa manors nationalized

1720 The Helmersens recover the nationalized manor

1763–1768 Present Tõstamaa church built

1790 Tõstamaa Manor pawned to Polish chamberlain Lilienfeldt for a term of 70 years

1804 Construction of Tõstamaa manor house begun

1819 Communes of Tõstamaa, Seliste, Pootsi, and Kastna founded by the manors

1831 At public sale, Tõstamaa Manor sold to Von Holstein, who earns the epithet, "the foolish baron" (his son August will be called "the mad baron"; his grandson Alexander, "the wise baron")

1845–1848 71% of the people living in Seli and Tõstamaa become orthodox; over the course of half a century, four orthodox congregations—Seli, Pootsi–Kõpu, Tõhela–Murru, and Kastna—are founded

1858 Maydell becomes official owner of Pootsi manor

1876–1877 Tõstamaa manor rebuilt

1921–1922 Tõstamaa school moved into the manor house; Pootsi school, into the bailiff's office

1921 Parcelling out of land in Tõstamaa and Pootsi parishes begun

1926-1945 A school of home economics operated in Tõstamaa

1927 A new townhouse built in the center of the commune in Ermistu

1939 As German Balts settle elsewhere, the Maydell family leaves Pootsi

1940-1944 World War II and subsequent arrests reach Tõstamaa

1944 In September, people begin to flee to Sweden: about a hundred people leave Seliste as well as Tõstamaa commune

1949 On March 25, sixty-seven people are expelled from Tõstamaa commune and twenty-two from Seliste

1953 In September, Tõstamaa School becomes a secondary school; the first students will be graduated in 1957

1962 Pootsi school moves into the manor house

1970-1982 An eight-year secondary school established in Tõstamaa

1972 On Midsummer's Eve, the front side of Tõstamaa church collapses, the steeple falls and the organ is destroyed

1982 The secondary school in Tõstamaa reinstated

1987 A memorial erected to Von Holstein, the last baron in Tõstamaa, and a famous scholar of Eastern languages

1990 The tercentenary of public education in Tõstamaa celebrated, two years late

1991 Preliminary renovation of Tõstamaa church completed; the present stage for singing is built, and the folklore festival celebrated in Tõstamaa

1992 On June 17, the separate community of Tõstamaa reinstated

1993 Tõstamaa Parish Day first celebrated

1996 Construction and restoration of the Tõstamaa Manor School begun; unique ceiling and wall paintings uncovered

1997 Tõstamaa Commune Days first celebrated

1998 Pootsi school moved back to the baillif's house

2001 Pootsi school relocated to Tõstamaa school

2002 An up-to-date boarding house at the Tõstamaa School completed; Tõstamaa Church receives a new steeple

2004 Schoolwork in the Poosti schoolhouse ceases; in August, Community Days celebrated in the heart of the manor

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