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Pürksi (Swedish: Birkas) is a village in Lääne-Nigula Parish, Lääne County, in western Estonia.[1]

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Pürksi
Village
Pürksi manor
Country	Estonia
County	Lääne County
Parish	Lääne-Nigula Parish
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Pürksi manor

Pürksi estate was founded in 1620. The building is from 1852. It was the home of artist Johann Carl Emanuel von Ungern-Sternberg (1773-1830), some of whose works are currently at the Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn. The manor, which lies in a part of Estonia that formerly had a sizeable Swedish minority, is today occupied by a school that is specialised in teaching Swedish.[2][3]

See also

• Estonian Swedes

References

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