Louhisaari Manor

Louhisaari Manor, dating back to the 15th century, gives a good presentation of aristocratic life in Finland from to the 17th to the 19th centuries. The earliest known owner of Louhisaari was a woman by the name of Elin, who was married to squire Magnus Fleming around the middle of the 15th century.

The builder of the house, as we see it mainly today, was Herman Claes'son Fleming (1619-1673), admiral, Governor-general of Finland and head of the internal revenue department, who built Askainen church (1653) and Louhisaari Manor (1655).

In 1795 the estate was sold to the politician Carl Eric Mannerheim and later vice-chairman of the economic department of the Senate, who took a keen interest in farming and horticulture.

The Mannerheim family kept Louhisaari until 1903 when Baroness Wilhelmina Mannerheim sold it to Mr. Oskar Hannus and moved to Sweden.

On the death of Oskar Hannus the estate passed to his daughter Mrs. Inkeri Hovinen, from whom the Commitee for an Equestrian Monument for Marshal of Finland bought the main building, surrounding park area and avenue and donated it to the Finnish State. Today it is administered by the National Museum of Finland.

The manor-house is surrounded by a park in English landscape style.

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