Hellenurme (german: Hellenorm) is a village in

Valga County Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and larg ...

in southeastern

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. (retrieved 28 July 2021) It is located about south of the town of

Elva Elva may refer to: Places *Elva, Estonia, town in Tartu County, Estonia *Elva Parish, municipality in Estonia *Elva (river), a river in Estonia *Elva, Illinois, unincorporated community in DeKalb County, Illinois, United States *Elva, Manitoba, u ...

and about northwest of the town of

Otepää Otepää (formerly Nuustaku) is a town in Valga County, southern Estonia, it is the administrative centre of Otepää Parish. Otepää is a popular skiing resort, popularly known as the "winter capital" of Estonia (in contrast to the "summer ca ...

. Hellenurme was the administrative centre of

Palupera Parish Palupera Parish was a rural municipality of the Estonian county of Valga. Settlements ;Villages Astuvere - Atra - Hellenurme - Lutike - Mäelooga - Makita - Miti - Neeruti - Nõuni - Päidla - Palupera Palupera is a village in Elva Pa ...

. The village has a population of 170 (as of 1 January 2011).

Hellenurme Manor

Hellenurme estate (german: Hellenorm) was first mentioned in 1641, when it belonged to the Wrangells. After the

Great Northern War The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedi ...

the owners were the Dückers and Bruiningks, from 1850 till dispossession in 1919 it belonged to the Middendorffs. The one-storey main building was built out of stone in the end of the 18th century and was changed in the 19th century. Nowadays a nursery and a kindergarten operate there. About a kilometre from the manor's centre is a Classicist chapel and family graveyard of the Middendorffs. The world-famous zoologist and explorer

Alexander von Middendorff Alexander Theodor von Middendorff (russian: Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ми́ддендорф; tr. ; 18 August 1815 – 24 January 1894) was a zoologist and explorer of Baltic German and Estonian extraction. He is known for his ex ...

who lived in the manor from 1842 to 1845 is buried there. 1865–1866 Estonian national awakening leader

Jakob Hurt Jakob Hurt ( in Himmaste – in St Petersburg) was a notable Estonian folklorist, theologian, and linguist. With respect to the last, he is perhaps best known for his dissertation on "pure" -ne stem nouns ("Die estnischen Nomina auf -ne purum ...

was a private tutor in Hellenurme Manor. The

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

– Valga railway passes Hellenurme on its western side; the nearest station is located 4 km away in

Palupera Palupera is a village in Elva Parish, Valga County in southeastern Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Fi ...

village.

Gallery

Hellenurme mõisa vesiveski1.jpg, Manor watermill H-tall.JPG, Stable Hellenurme mõisa park.jpg, Park H-piimaköök.JPG, Dairy kitchen

References

External links

Hellenurme Manor
at Estonian Manors Portal Villages in Valga County Kreis Dorpat {{Valga-geo-stub