Helme Parish

Helmets (German Helmet ) is a rural municipality in the Estonian Valga County with an area of 313 km ². It has 2269 inhabitants (1 January 2010).

The parish includes the villages Ala, helmets (230 inhabitants), Holdre, Jõgeveste, doldrums, Kirikuküla, Koorküla, Kähu, Linna, Möldre, Patküla, Pilpa, Roobe and Taagepera. The administrative headquarters is located in the city Tõrva.

Helmets was first mentioned in 1329 in a document relating to military campaigns of Latvians. The name comes from the Teutonic Castle, which had been in 1261 to protect the environment ( named after the German word helmet) built (now ruins ). Worth seeing is the baroque manor of helmets, which was built in the second half of the 18th century. It now houses a vocational school.

In the village Jõgeveste ( German Tepelshof, later Beckhof ), the 1823 completed mausoleum of the Russian Field Marshal Michael Barclay de Tolly ( 1761-1818 ), the victor of the Battle of Leipzig is (small museum since 1973 ).