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13-473: The manor is first mentioned in 1511, when Olav Nilsson, the governor of Helsinki is the owner. Under captain Johan Köhn, who was raised to nobility under the name of Köhnningstedt, the mansion received its name. Counsellor of State Jacob Wilhem Hisinger constructed the present house in 1816. According tradition Carl Ludvig Engel is the architect, although some presume it is his assistant Pehr Granstedt who did

26-529: A bricklayer apprentice that he first came in contact with his future profession as an architect. He trained at the Berlin Institute of Architecture after which he served in the Prussian building administration. The stagnation caused by Napoleon's victory over Prussia in 1806 forced him and other architects to find work abroad. In 1808, he applied for the position as town architect of Tallinn, Estonia . He got

39-493: A kind of head architect of the Grand Duchy was established when he received more and more building assignments, both private and public, in other parts of Finland. The final confirmation came when he in 1824 was appointed head of the statewide Intendant's Office, responsible for all key state buildings throughout the country, a position he was offered - but first declined because he still had hopes of returning to Prussia - following

52-504: Is a mix of Empire, Gustavian style and neo-rococo . The manor has been repaired various times. During the first restoration, a veranda with Ionic columns was added to the mansion. Further restorations were in the 1930s, when the columns facing the garden were erected, the 1950s when central heating was included and in 1997. The house is surrounded by a park. The estate surrounding the manor covers 35 hectares, primarily used for farming and horse and livestock raising. In addition, there

65-460: Is an apple orchard, a site of glassworks and a chapel. 60°20.694′N 024°50.759′E  /  60.344900°N 24.845983°E  / 60.344900; 24.845983 Carl Ludvig Engel Carl Ludvig Engel or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel (3 July 1778 – 14 May 1840) was a German architect whose most noted work can be found in Helsinki , which he helped rebuild. His works include most of

78-785: The Estonian Chancellor of Justice ) and, possibly, Kernu manor. From 1814 to 1815, he worked for a businessman in Turku, Finland , where he came in contact with Johan Albrecht Ehrenström , who led the project of rebuilding Helsinki. The city had just been promoted to be the new capital of the new Grand Duchy of Finland . Ehrenström was searching for a talented architect to work by his side and this meeting proved to be decisive for Carl Ludvig Engel's future career. At this stage Engel did not however stay in Finland. In March 1815 he travelled to St. Petersburg where he got private employment. In 1816 Engel

91-677: The buildings around the capital's monumental centre, the Senate Square and the buildings surrounding it. The buildings are Helsinki Cathedral , The Senate (now the Palace of the Council of State ), the Helsinki City Hall , and the library and the main building of Helsinki University . Carl Ludvig Engel was born in 1778 in Charlottenburg, Berlin , into a family of bricklayers. It was probably as

104-586: The design. In the 20th century there were many owners such as Robert Mattson , Colonel Mikael Gripenberg, and Baron Gustaf Wrede . The Finnish Government purchased the manor from Baroness Asta Wrede in 1961. The Aceh peace talks between the Free Aceh Movement and the Indonesian Government , hosted by Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari were held at the manor in 2005. Meetings between North Korean, South Korean and American delegations took place at

117-547: The job and in this way came into the vicinity of St. Petersburg and its neoclassical Empire style . Finland was also close by and was soon to experience a new governmental phase as a Grand Duchy under Russian rule . Engel started working in Tallinn in 1809, but just after a few years he was forced to move on again because of a lack of assignments. From this period in Estonia, a palace on Kohtu street 8 in Tallinn survives (today housing

130-580: The mansion in 2018 as preparation for the 2018 North Korea–United States summit . The exterior of the manor is designed in neoclassical style and received its yellow/ white colours in 1825. The interior is in Empire style and is coloured in grey scales combined with stronger tones. The main rooms are the Entrance Hall, the Library, Dining Room, Yellow Reception Room, Green Salon and Blue Coffee salon. The furniture

143-507: The resignation of its first head, the Italian-born architect Carlo Bassi , and which he retained until his death. Among his other key works from this period is Helsinki Old Church in Kamppi , completed in 1826. He designed the first theater of Helsinki, Engels Teater , in 1827, though this was a rather modest building. He was also responsible for the new city plan for Turku after most of it

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156-548: Was planning on returning to his city of birth, but at the same time Ehrenström got approval for his plan to get Engel to Helsinki. Engel's plans for Helsinki had been shown to Czar Alexander I and in February Engel was appointed architect of the reconstruction committee for Helsinki. Engel probably thought that this would once again be a temporary job, but instead Helsinki came to be his life's work. In 1819–1820, when Engel's first creations were nearing completion, his status as

169-668: Was wiped out by the Great Fire of Turku in 1827. Engel died on 14 May 1840 in Helsinki. Kernu Kernu is a village in Saue Parish , Harju County in northern Estonia . It is located in the southwestern part of Harju County and is a neighbour to Saue , Keila , Vasalemma and Nissi Parish in Harju County and Kohila , Rapla and Märjamaa parish in Rapla County . Before

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