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Marianna's half-manor, now Rītausmas.

1On January 5, 1800 the manor was sold to the college assessor Johann Friedrich von Berner (1757–1824), who had already bought the Staļģene manor three years earlier. Von Berner started his career as a banker in Jelgava, Duke Peter appointed him as a commercial adviser. In 1794 he bought the nobility of the Holy Roman Empire and in 1797 entered the matriculation of the Courland nobility. He was known for his spacious and hospitable house in Jelgava, as well as for his beautiful collection of paintings. However, von Berner's cultivated taste and proud way of life did not reach Pamūša. This was most evident in the Jelgava house, it was already visible in the Staļģene manor, which was built by him in 1797 by the architect Severin Jensen, and only then came Pamūša. It was both a large and economically valuable manor, but not a place of entertainment. The inventories of all three properties compiled in 1824 clearly show the place of fine arts in their arrangement. In Jelgava house, paintings and engravings are valued at ..., in Staļģene manor - at 200 rubles, but in Pamūša their value has reached only 20 rubles. It must be assumed that the same wooden house was used in Berner's time which existed in 1795, when the inventory was compiled. In 1824, the building listed two closets, five beds, eight tables, 36 chairs and two sofas. Quite modest cutlery - 22 earthenware plates, 8 glasses of wine and a dozen "ordinary glasses" - shows that the luxury-loving von Berner hardly spend at least one night in Pamūša (Rundāle Palace Museum 2020). After the death of Johann Friedrich von Berner on March 6, 1824, it turned out that there was more debt than money. To satisfy the creditors' claims, a board of trustees was established, which has taken over the management of the Staļģene and Pamūša manors, and then resells them further. Pamūša has been managed by curators for a long time and the documents of the board of curators show that Pamūša manor has been carefully managed and a lot has been done to maintain the buildings. Between Ligo festival of 1824 and 1825 a new bird house was built, an alcohol brewery was restored, from 1830 to 1831 a new barn for pigs was built.
Pamūša manor, however, has remained in the hands of the von Berner family. The widow Marianna von Berner was lucky enough to save part of her dowry money and in 1832 to buy back the manor. After her death, her son Johan came to agreement with the two sisters and took over Pamūša in 1833. He died in 1848, and the manor of Pamūša fell into the hands of his two sisters, who lived in Naples. On December 18, 1848 Marianna von Berner and Louise Catalano sold Pamūša manor together with Marianna's half-manor, Ārce manor was separated as a property in this deal, to the Mayor of Riga Heinrich Karl Johann von Bötticher as inherited Mortgage property.