Mäo, Järva County

Village in Estonia

Village in Järva County, Estonia

Mäo
Village
Mäo Manor
Country	Estonia
County	Järva County
Municipality	Paide
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Mäo is a village in Paide municipality, Järva County in northern-central Estonia.^[1] Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in Paide Parish.

History

In Mäo, there is a memorial to fallen policemen designed by Vilen Künnapu and unveiled in 1995. It commemorates the Mäo shooting [et], which took place on December 15, 1994, when smugglers killed two policemen at the intersection in Mäo: 21-year-old Marek Lemming and 30-year-old Argo Kivi.^[2]

Notable people

Notable people that were born or lived in Mäo include the following:

Johannes Brenner (1906–1975), Estonian footballer and Olympic competitor, born in Mäo
Johannes Greenberg (1887–1951), painter, born at Mäo Manor
Carmen Kass (born 1978), Estonian supermodel, grew up in Mäo^[3]

References

^ Classification of Estonian administrative units and settlements 2014^{[dead link]} (retrieved 28 July 2021)
^ "Mäos avati mälestusmärk hukkunud politseinikele". Eesti Päevaleht. December 15, 1995. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
^ "Eesti ime: Carmen Kass". Eesti Päevaleht. 3 November 2000. Retrieved 28 November 2015.