Vedu

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Vedu ( German  Fehtenhof , historically also Marifer ) is a village in the Estonian rural community of Tartu with 285 inhabitants (January 1, 2017).

history

The former Fehtenhof estate , 13 km north of Tartu, was first mentioned in 1489 as Marifer and the village as Karifer. Marifer was sold at the end of the 15th century by Jürgen Brackel to Hinrick Fet (also Heinrich Fehte or Vethen; 1479–1500), after whose family, who owned the estate until 1601, the court name changed in the 16th century and in 1627 to was called Fehtt for the first time. The village name Karifer became Weddo around the same time. In 1606 at the latest, the estate was owned by the Swedish crown and only came to the governor of Reval Jobst Taube in 1632 . The Taube family sold Fehtenhof to Hans von Wrangell in 1667 , but it was returned to Taube in 1685, who sold it to Augustin Heller in 1726 for 2200 Reichstaler. He sold Fehtenhof in 1732 to Christer von Brandt , who stayed with his family until 1859. The next owner was Woldemar von Rosen , to whom his wife Euphrosine Wilhelmine von Brandt had passed it on. The last owner from the knighthood in 1919 was Otto Baron Stackelberg . Until 1909 Fehtenhof was part of the community Ellistfer and belonged to the parish of Ecks . Since 1939 it has been incorporated into Tartu. At the end of the 20th century, Fehtenhof in the village of Vedu is opened.

In Vedu there is the striking riibaku or sacrificial linden tree with a height of only 10 m and a trunk circumference at chest height of 4.4 m. The Stackelberg family's cemetery, now covered in forest, was about 600 m from the manor house . This was designed to be almost circular on 80 m 2 . Almost only the 10 granite posts of the enclosure and two grave fragments are still recognizable.

  • Riibaku linden tree

  • Stackelberg cemetery

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  1. ↑ 4285 Vedu mõisa kalmistu (ground monument; Estonian).