Sõmerpalu Explained

Sõmerpalu
Native Name:Sõmmõrpalo
Settlement Type:Small borough
Pushpin Map:Estonia
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Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Estonia
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Estonia
Subdivision Type1:County
Subdivision Name1: Võru County
Subdivision Type2:Municipality
Subdivision Name2:Võru Parish

Sõmerpalu (Sõmmõrpalo, German: Sommerpahlen) is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Võru County, Estonia. Between 1991–2017, until the administrative reform of Estonian local governments, the small town was the administrative center of Sõmerpalu Parish. As of 2017, it belongs to Võru Parish.[1]

Sõmerpalu manor

The history of the local manor goes back to at least 1544, when there was a fortified manor, a so-called "vassal castle", at approximately the same site as the present-day manor house. During the Livonian War, however, this building was destroyed, and a new manor house was built some time after this. The present house was erected by the family von Moeller in the 1860s in the then-popular neo-Gothic style.[2]

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  1. Web site: NGA GeoName Database . . 2010-05-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100430111352/http://geonames.nga.mil/ggmagaz/geonames4.asp . April 30, 2010 .
  2. Book: Sakk, Ivar . Estonian Manors - A Travelogue . Sakk & Sakk OÜ . 2004 . Tallinn . 241 . 9949-10-117-4 .