Võnnu

Võnnu lies southeast of Tartu in an old parish of the country once known as Ugandi. Its church, dedicated to St James, served the surrounding villages and became one of the largest churches in the Estonian countryside. The parish appears in medieval records under the German name Wenden, while the settlement itself is recorded under related forms in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The church was rebuilt more than once, preserving the importance of this rural centre through the changing fortunes of the Bishopric of Dorpat and the lands that succeeded it.