59.439049, 24.700474
GPS: 59° 26' 21" N, 24° 42' 2" E
It was already in 1759, the dying year of Schiller, that frau Elisabeth Dorothea von
Gersdorf had a statue erected for him. However the nine meters high statue along with
the surrounding park faded after her death. Schiller was most admired in the Baltics
– it was in 1830 that his homeland had a statue erected for him. The current statue in
Helme was opened in 2009.
Location: Mäe tn 23, Otepää vallasisene linn, Valgamaa
The body of the first apotheckary in Otepää, a man called Jürvelson, was found on this
hill in 1882. The apotheckary had been poisoned. The trail itself
is four kilometers long running through the forest and by the Margus’ lake. The trail is passa...
Location: Barclay de Tolly mausoleumi park, Jõgeveste küla, Helme vald, Valgamaa
The Arch of Triumph in Valga County? No – it is the classicist mausoleum (architect Apollon Shtshedrin) that houses the sarcophaguses in which lie the embalmed bodies of Prince Michael Andrea Barclay de Tolly (1761-1818) and his wife (who died in 1828)....
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