Kanepi Parish

Kanepi (German Kannapäh ) is a rural municipality in the Estonian Põlva circle with an area of ​​231.5 km ². It has 2 564 inhabitants (as of 1 January 2006).

In addition to the main town Kanepi ( 694 inhabitants ) belong to the municipality the villages Erastvere, Heisri, Hino, Hurmi, Jõgehara, Joksi, Kaagna, Kaagvere, karsts, Koigera, Kooraste, Lauri, Magari, Näräpää, Peetrimõisa, Piigandi, Põlgaste, Rebaste, Soodoma, Sõreste and Varbuse.

Kanepi was first mentioned in documents in 1582. It was here on 29 December 1701, the Battle of Erastfer between the armies of the Swedish King Karl XII. and the army of Tsar Peter the Great of Russia instead. The stone church of St. John Kanepi was built from 1804 to 1810 instead of the previous building of wood and rebuilt in 1877.

1804, the first parish school in what is now Estonia was founded in Kanepi by the Baltic German theologian and pedagogue Johann Philip Roth.

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