Kõpu

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Kõpu
State : EstoniaEstonia Estonia
Circle : Viljandimaa lipp.svg Viljandi
Coordinates : 58 ° 20 ′  N , 25 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 58 ° 20 ′  N , 25 ° 19 ′  E
Area : 149.5  km²
 
Residents : 759 (01.2010)
Population density : 5 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : EET (UTC + 2)
Telephone code : (+372) 258.7
Map of Estonia, position of Kõpu highlighted

Kõpu (German: Köppo ) is a former rural community in the Estonian district of Viljandi with an area of ​​258.7 km². It has 759 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2010).

Kõpu is in the west of the county. The municipality is located approximately 70 km from Pärnu and 185 km from Tallinn . The place was first mentioned in a document in 1481.

In addition to the main town of Kõpu, the rural community includes the villages of Iia, Kuninga, Laane, Punaküla, Supsi, Seruküla, Tipu, Uia and Vanaveski.

The center of the Soomaa National Park is located in Kõpu . The moor landscape and the untouched forests are impressive for nature lovers.

On October 21, 2017, the rural communities of Kõo , Kõpu, Suure-Jaani and the small town of Võhma were merged to form the new rural community of North Sakala .

Good Köppo

Groß-Köppo manor, today Kõpu

On December 19, 1800, Tsar Paul I gave Katharina von Schröders, the wife of Lieutenant General von Schröders, a born. von Grünberg and the widow of Captain Uschakow, the largest part of the estate under the name Groß Köppo, the small part remained under the name Klein-Köppo with the Krone.

On January 17, 1804, Katharina von Schröders sold the Groß-Köppo estate for 120,000 rubles to the Saxon-Weimar Secret Councilor Paul Ludwig Johann von Löwenstern (1752-1824), who transferred it to the State Councilor Franz Georg von Oettingen (1757-1832).

On September 8, 1805, the State Council of Oettingen pledged Groß-Köppo for 132,033 rubles to his brother-in-law, the district chief Bernhard Heinrich von Stryk .

On April 20, 1822 von Stryck transferred the property for 53,300 rubles to his son, the District Court Assessor Alexander Georg Gottlieb von Stryk, after the lien had been converted into a purchase.

Until the expropriation due to the Estonian land reform in 1919 , the von Stryk family owned the Groß-Köppo estate.

Web links

  • Kõpu Municipality website (Estonian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Põhja-Sakala vald on sündinud - October 21, 2017
  2. ^ Heinrich von Hagemeister : Materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia s, Volumes 1–2, Eduard Frantzen's Buchhandlung, Riga, 1836
  3. ^ Leonhard von Stryk : Contributions to the history of the manors of Livonia , Volume 1 Albanus'sche Buchdruckerei, Dresden, 1877