Louhisaari Manor

Louhisaari Manor

A birthplace of Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim. It is located on the southwest coast of Finland 30 km north of Turku, in Masku.

• The earliest known owner of Louhisaari was a woman by the name of Elin. Elin married squire Magnus Fleming around the middle of the 15th century.
• Several of the Louhisaari Flemings held important posts in the kingdom of Sweden-Finland.
• Among the most prominent of them were governor Herman Pehrs’son Fleming (died 1573), Claes Lars’son Fleming (1592-1644), admiral and president of the Board of Trade, and 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). The heirs of Herman Claes’son Fleming (1734-1789), courtier, ” the last wealthy Fleming”, sold the manor in 1791.
• The some point estate passed Carl Robert Mannerheim, a businessman, whose third child, Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, was born in Louhisaari in 1867 and spent his childhood there. The Mannerheim family owned 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 for administration by the National Museum.
• Guided tours for groups by previous appointment only. Guided tours in English and Swedish also available by previous appointment.

The National Museum of Finland consist of eight museums and two castles

• The National Museum of Finland
• Olavinlinna Castle
• Häme Castle
• The Maritime Museum of Finland
• Seurasaari Open-Air Museum
• Tamminiemi
• Hvitträsk
• Louhisaari Manor
• Langinkoski
• The Prison

Opening times and ticket fees

• Check opening hours and ticket prices on Louhisaari Manor website.

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