History of the manor

Salla manor (German: Der Gutshof Sall) was an estate in the Simuna parish in Virumaa. Nowadays the heart of the estate is the Salla village of Väike-Maarja municipality in Lääne-Viru county.

Manor park

The manor park is protected as a cultural and natural monument.

In the north-western corner of the park there was the Plettenberg oak, the circumference of which was 5 meters and height 17 meters, but which was destroyed in the storms of the second half of the 20th century. According to the folklore, the oak was planted by the master of the Livonian Order Wolter von Plettenberg. In 2002, a wooden sculpture the Plettenberg Knight made of the fallen oak was erected in the park.