Viljandi Parish

Municipality of Estonia

Municipality of Estonia in Viljandi County

Viljandi Parish Viljandi vald
Municipality of Estonia

Flag Coat of arms
Viljandi Parish within Viljandi County.
Country	Estonia
County	Viljandi County
Administrative centre	Viljandi
Government
• Mayor	Alar Karu (IRL)
Area
• Total	651 km² (251 sq mi)
Population (2019)
• Total	13,569^[1]
ISO 3166 code	EE-899
Website	www.viljandivald.ee

Viljandi Parish (Estonian: Viljandi vald) is a rural municipality of Viljandi County, Estonia. It is located around the town of Viljandi, but does not include it.

Viljandi Parish was established by merging four municipalities: Paistu, Pärsti, Saarepeedi and Viiratsi parishes. This took place after the municipal elections held on 20 October 2013.^[2]

Between 1939 and 1950, Viljandi Parish existed with different borders.

Populated places

Viljandi Parish has 4 small boroughs (alevik): Kolga-Jaani, Mustla, Ramsi and Viiratsi and approximately 126 villages, including:

Religion

Religion in Viljandi Parish (2021) [1]

Unaffiliated (87.1%)

Lutheran (8.8%)

Orthodox (1.7%)

Others Christians (0.6%)

Others Religions (0.8%)

Unknown (1.0%)

Gallery

Heimtali Manor's distillery kitchen
Heimtali Manor's windmill
Väikemõisa Manor in Peetrimõisa
Main building Pärsti Manor
Main building of Vana-Võidu Manor, now Viljandi Joint Vocational Secondary School
Tänassilma Orthodox church
Memorial at military commander Johan Laidoner's birthplace in Vardja
Sinialliku lake

References

^ "Statistics Estonia". Retrieved 10 October 2019.
^ Siseministeerium Archived October 29, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Tekib seitse tugevat valda. 2013