Toolse

Toolse Castle stands on a narrow peninsula on the Gulf of Finland. An earlier fortified house guarded the harbour here before the Livonian Order took the site in 1471. Master Johann Wolthus von Herse had a new order castle built in its place, known as Vredeborg and later Tolsburg. Its position allowed the garrison to watch the coast and the anchorage below. The castle was completed before the Livonian War, when the contest for Livonia brought Russian and Swedish forces to the northern Estonian shore.