À la carte restaurant of Seegi Maja offers original dishes and baroque music. A cosy fireplace hall is an ideal place for organising small parties and get-togethers. The beer and wine cellar is a good place for spending one's time pleasantly. The sauna provides relaxation for body and soul. The hotel organises theme and fancy dress parties.
History of Seegi Maja. HGS Pühavaimu Kiriku Seek (Almshouse of the
Seegi Maja is known to be the oldest construction in Pärnu, rebuilt in 1658 of the almshouse of the Holy Ghost Church.
AS Ecober restored Seegi Maja in 1998-2000 under the guidance of Raivo Tõnismaa, retaining the 17th century exterior outlook. Architects Leevi Sokk and Rein Raie.
During the reconstruction of the building in 1998, the archaeologists discovered many interesting finds from the 14th-15th century, which refer to the ruins of a stone inn. (Rhein ceramics – imported wine, potsherds, whetstone, flint, coins of Livonian soldiers).
It is assumed that the inn belonged to Jürgen Kratze and was sold to Michel Schweder, a clergyman form Tori in 1544, who bought the house for his daughter Elsabe.
In 1580 the plot was given to Pärnu township by the privilege of King Stephan Bathory and in 1658 the town built an almshouse, which also gave the name to
In the Middle Ages hospital denoted a closed welfare institution, having received the name from hospidalites – monks taking care of the poor and the sick. In Latin hospes, hospites mean strange or a hospitable host of a guesthouse or an innkeeper. In Latin hospitium is a guesthouse or hospital. The Brotherhood of Hospitalites was founded in the 9th century. The patron saints of the sick are Lazarus and St. Rochus.
Seek (almshouse) denotes a shelter for the sick and the invalids in the medieval times, run on charity. Later the word became an equivalent to an old people's home. The house at Hospidali 1 is called the hospital-almshouse. In the almshouse upkeeping and treating were combined.
In 1816 the magistrate sold the old almshouse to Hans Dietrich Schmidt (1741 -1942), who had an import-export storehouse in the same quarter and who used the house as an outhouse.
Pursuant to the placement of stones in the wall and their strategic connections the archaeologists suppose that in the construction of the hospital-almshouse in the middle of the 17th century old medieval stone walls of the former construction were used and the house was built in between 1250 – 1350, however, the archaeologists were not able to establish the exact date of the construction.
Interior design and frescoes: Omar Volmer, style: New-Old Baroque. Forging G. Vares.
Scripts on the paintings in the Seegi Maja Restaurant:
Where the rich make merry, the poor Lazarus in trouble but after death everything is just the other way round.
Without food and drink Venus shall fade out (Love finds its way through stomach).
