Nyynäisten kartanomaisema

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

The cultural-historical significance of Nyynäinen manor and the crown virkatalo rests above all on its historical phases as a medieval residential manor and a crown virkatalo, and on its landscape setting on the broad agricultural plain of Mietoinen and Lemu.

Nyynäinen manor is located on the former seabed of Lemunlahti. The estate sits on a hillock and is surrounded by a flat, open farming landscape, which also includes farm holdings split off after the Second World War for evacuee settlers.

Nyynäinen's present buildings are grouped within the courtyard area of the old manor, where noble trees grow. Of the medieval building stock with its stone manor, cellars dating from the 16th century survive. The present main building is possibly from the 18th century. The long, red-ochre-painted residential building on the western edge of the courtyard was moved to its present site at the beginning of the 19th century. The narrow-framed building comprises, in accordance with the paired-room layout, the living rooms on either side of a central hall. Additional rooms have been built on both gable ends. Some details of the fixed interior fittings, including Baroque doors, point to an early construction period. The Empire doors with their frame mouldings, in the hall and the entrance space, come from the building's moving phase. Several old outbuildings survive.

History

In the Middle Ages, Nyynäinen was one of the most important manors in Finland, and it may originally have been one of the early royal manors on the Finnish coast. The first known owner was Klaus Lydekenpoika Diekn, captain of the Turku castle, in the early 15th century. A stone manor building is known to have stood on the site in the 16th century, which burned down in 1527. In the Great Reduction of 1681, the fief was revoked to the Crown, and when the ruotujako system was organised, it was designated as the virkatalo of a lieutenant colonel. The virkatalo was already leased out in 1791. Nyynäinen manor had several alustalainen tenant farms and crofts from as early as the 17th century onwards.

The present main building was possibly moved from the south-western edge of the courtyard in 1811. The saddle-roofed natural stone cowshed was completed in the 1870s, and the log-built ox stable building in 1884. The dairy was built in 1920. The estate's cellar dates from the early 16th century, but the long workshop and residential building constructed on top of it was completed between 1938 and 1939. Nyynäinen estate was bought from the Crown in 1946.