Kammeri is a village in

Kambja Parish Kambja Parish is a rural municipality in Tartu County, Estonia. Settlements ;Small boroughs: Kambja - Külitse - Räni - Tõrvandi - Ülenurme ;Villages: Aakaru - Ivaste - Kaatsi - Kammeri - Kavandu - Kodijärve - Kõrkküla - Kull ...

Tartu County Tartu County ( or ''Tartumaa'') is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is located in eastern Estonia bordering Põlva County, Valga County, Viljandi County and Jõgeva County. The area of Tartu County is , which covers 6.9% of the territory of E ...

in southern

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, located about 23 km south of the city of

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 97,759 (as of 2024). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of Riga, Latvia. Tartu lies on the Emajõgi river, which connects the ...

. (retrieved 28 July 2021) In 2000 Kammeri had a population of 92. Kammeri Manor () was first mentioned in the middle of the 16th century, when it belonged to the Dückers. Other owners include the Fersens, Rennenkampffs,

Helmersen The Helmersen family (earlier ''Helmes'') was noble family which roots came from Hamburg, Germany. Helmersens lived in Sweden and Imperial Russia, including the Governorate of Livonia and Governorate of Estonia The Governorate of Estonia, ...

s and

Staden Staden (; ) is a village and rural municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality has around 11 000 inhabitants. In the local West-Flemish dialect, the ''d'' is not pronounced, which results in ''Stoan'' as pronunciati ...

s. After the dispossession in 1919 the manor building was used as a school. The building was demolished in 2009 to build a modern schoolhouse. Kammeri village school was established in 1765. Baltic German geologist

Gregor von Helmersen Gregor von Helmersen or Grigory Petrovich Helmersen (, – ) was a Baltic German geologist. Biography Helmersen was born in Duckershof, Livonia (now in Estonia) and went to boarding school in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the Univers ...

(1803–1885) was born in Kammeri Manor. Also the German diplomat Berndt von Staden ( de) (born 1919) spent his childhood in the manor.

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Kammeri Manor
at Estonian Manors Portal Villages in Tartu County Kreis Dorpat {{Tartu-geo-stub