Jüri

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Jüri is a small borough in Harju County, northern Estonia. It lies 12 km southeast of Tallinn, near the Tallinn–Tartu road and the Tallinn Ring Road. Jüri is the administrative centre of Rae Parish. The population was 3,594 on 1 June 2023, and in 2011 it was the center of population in Estonia.

Jüri grew from two areas: the western centre of Sommerling Kolkhoz (also known as Rosenhagen Manor) and an eastern construction base with housing. A protected Lehmja oak grove sits in the middle.

Rosenhagen Manor was established in the 1630s and is now in western Jüri; it is known as Lehmja since 1917. The wooden main building is gone, but some outbuildings, such as the workers’ house, remain.

The original Jüri church was probably in Karla in 1401. The current church was built in 1885 on the site of the medieval church.

Anton Thor Helle, translator of the first Estonian Bible, was the pastor in Jüri from 1713 to 1748.