Hellenurme

58°08′07″N 26°22′57″E / 58.13528°N 26.38250°E / 58.13528; 26.38250CountryEstoniaCountyValga CountyMunicipalityElva ParishFirst mentioned1641Population • Total170

Hellenurme (German: Hellenorm) is a village of Valga County in southeastern Estonia,^[2] about 10 km (6 mi) south of Elva and 11 km (7 mi) northwest of Otepää. It was the administrative centre of Palupera Parish and had a population of 170 on 1 January 2011.^[1] The Tartu–Valga railway passes on its western side; the nearest station is 4 km away in Palupera village.

Hellenurme Manor (German: Hellenorm) was first mentioned in 1641, when it belonged to the Wrangells. After the Great Northern War 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 from stone at the end of the 18th century and rebuilt in the 19th. A nursery and kindergarten now operate there.

About a kilometre from the manor's centre is a Classicist chapel and Middendorff family graveyard. Zoologist and explorer Alexander von Middendorff, who lived in the manor from 1842 to 1845, is buried there.^[3]

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  Manor watermill
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  Stable
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  Park
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  Dairy kitchen

• Hellenurme Manor at Estonian Manors Portal