Nõo
Small borough
Nõo St. Lawrence Lutheran church (Nõo Püha Laurentsiuse kirik)
Nõo Location in Estonia
Coordinates:58°16′47″N26°31′58″E / 58.27972°N 26.53278°E /58.27972; 26.53278
Country	Estonia
County	Tartu
Municipality	Nõo
First mentioned	1319
Population  (2011 Census[1])
• Total	1,492

Nõo (German:Nüggen) is asmall borough (Estonian:alevik) inTartu County, in southernEstonia. It's located about 15 km southwest of the city ofTartu by the Tartu–Valga–Riga railway and theEuropean route E264 (also known asVia Hanseatica). Nõo is the administrative centre ofNõo Parish. As of the2011 census, the settlement's population was 1,492.^[1]

Nõo was first mentioned in 1319 asNughen and as a separate church parish in 1483, during the times when it belonged to theBishopric of Dorpat.^[2] Nõo St. Laurence Lutheran Church is believed to have been built around the 1250s to 1260s.^[3]

According toBengt Gottfried Forselius schooling took place in Nõo already in 1686. Since 1688 a local parish school has been working in Nõo. In 1953 the primary school was reorganized as a secondary school. In 1965 a computing centre was established, the school was given the first school computer in theUSSR – theUral-1. In 1994 Nõo school was separated into Nõo Secondary Science Gymnasium (Nõo Reaalgümnaasium) and Nõo Primary School (Nõo Põhikool).^[4][5]

• Jaak Järv (1852–1920), writer and journalist; worked as a teacher in Nõo school
• Helen Klaos (Helen Reino, born 1983), badminton player
• Juhan Kotkas (1878–1963), violist and composer; was born in Nõo
• Aleksander Läte (1860–1948), composer; worked at the Nõo school 1883–1900
• Martin Lipp (1854–1923), poet; served as the pastor of Nõo church
• Ado Reinvald (1847–1922), writer; lived in Nõo
• Harald Tammur (1917–2001). Lutheran pastor of Nõo St. Lawrence Lutheran church from 1954 until 1979
• Eduard Tubin (1905–1982), composer and conductor; worked as a teacher in Nõo school

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  Nõo library and municipal building
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  Nõo Orthodox Holy Trinity Church

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