After the collapse of the Livonian Order in 1562, the manor became property and a popular hunting spot for Gotthard Kettler, first Duke of Courland and Semigallia.

[3] The initial architectural design is supposed to have been the work of Italian-born Russian architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli,[3] who died in 1771 before completion of the project.

Construction began in 1768 and finished in 1775 under the supervision of Rastrelli's Danish-born assistant Severin Jensen,[3] which explains the influence of both Late Baroque and Classicism architecture in the completed manor house.

[2] His wife Aleksandra Lieven of Mežotne, after her husband's death, passed the estate over to the hands of the Baltic-German Count Karl Theodor von Medem of Eleja at the end of the nineteenth century.

[2] After the Latvian agrarian reforms in 1920, the building was nationalized and turned into a vocational secondary school, which continues in operation as of today.