Moe is a village in

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, in northern

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. It's located about 3.5 km southeast of the town of

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, on the

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River. Moe is passed by the

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road (nr 5), and is bordered by the

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railway to the southwest. As of the 2011 census, the settlement's population was 206. Moe knight manor () was first mentioned in 1500 when it belonged to Hermann Rothase. In 1566 it was 12 hides large. It was also the first record about Moe (''Muddus'') and Koluotsa (''Kollotz''), villages owned by the manor. In 1887 the new

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owner Jakob Kurberg established a modern

distillery Distillation, also classical distillation, is the process of separating the component substances of a liquid mixture of two or more chemically discrete substances; the separation process is realized by way of the selective boiling of the mixt ...

which became one of the largest in Estonia. It operated until 2009. The Estonian Distillery Industry Museum () is opened in the old vodka kitchen.

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Estonian Distillery Industry MuseumMoe Manor
at Estonian Manors Portal Villages in Lääne-Viru County Kreis Jerwen {{LääneViru-geo-stub