The construction of the vassal fortress on the Tallinn-Narva Hwy was started by Jakob von Taube in 1533. The Purtse Fortress on the large trade and military road was seriously damaged in the Great Northern War and by the 1950s only ruins remained.
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Location: Tartu maantee 1, Puurmani alevik, Puurmani vald, Jõgevamaa
Built in 1860 Estonian partisan battalion was formed in here in 1918. The Medieval
castle that stood in the spot before is even too interesting – no one knows exactly where
it was. If most of the Ordelian castles remain at least in the form of ...