Sangaste

Sangaste
Small borough
Sangaste Castle
Sangaste Location in Estonia
Coordinates: 57°55′34″N 26°19′55″E / 57.92611°N 26.33194°E / 57.92611; 26.33194
Country	Estonia
County	Valga County
Municipality	Otepää Parish
Population  (01.01.2010[1])
• Total	228

Sangaste (Võro: Sangastõ) is a small borough (Estonian: alevik) in Otepää Parish, Valga County, southern Estonia. Sangaste has a population of 228 (as of 1 January 2010).^[1]

Sangaste castle

Sangaste castle or manor (

According to legend, it owes its existence to an insult the local count Friedrich Georg Magnus von Berg received in his youth. When attempting to wed a young English lady, her father objected to giving his daughter away to "some Russian savage".[4] Nowadays the castle is administratively located in the nearby village of Lossiküla.

Gallery

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  Sangaste castle
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  Sangaste castle
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  Sangaste manor stable-coach house
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  Sangaste church
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  One of the cemetery chapels in Sangaste cemetery

Notable people

• Baltic German Field Marshal, the Governor-General of Finland and notable for his role in the Russification of Poland
  ; was born in Sangaste Castle
• August Gailit (1891–1960), writer; was born in Kuiksilla, near the Sangaste Castle
• Aarne Viisimaa (1898–1989), operatic tenor and opera director

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sangaste.

• Sangaste Parish (in Estonian)
• Sangaste Castle

Preceding station	Elron			Following station
Keeni towards Tallinn		Tallinn–Tartu–Valga		Valga Terminus