Tsooru Manor

Tsooru in Rõuge parish is recorded from 1516. In the Polish period it belonged to Stanislaus Nonhart, who bequeathed it to St John's church in Tartu, an unusual fate for a manor. The estate later returned to private owners and stayed a knight's manor until the land reform. Its main house burned in 1949, and only the west wing survives, rebuilt, with vaulted cellars beneath. What draws visitors today are the protected outbuildings: the granary, the miller's house, the park and especially the windmill, which still stands as a landmark.