Mäo () is a village in Paide municipality,

Järva County Järva County ( or ''Järvamaa''; ; ) is one of 15 counties of Estonia. It is situated in the central part of the country and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Jõgeva County to the south-east, Viljandi County to the south, Pärnu County t ...

in northern-central

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

. Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, it was located in

Paide Parish Paide Parish () was a rural municipality of Estonia, in Järva County. It had a population of 1935 (as of 2004) and an area of 300 km². Nurmsi Airfield (ICAO: EENI) is located in the parish. During the Cold War, it hosted a front-line fig ...

History

In Mäo, there is a memorial to fallen policemen designed by

Vilen Künnapu Vilen Künnapu (born 30 June 1948) is one of the most important Estonian architects of the last three decades, among the first postmodernist theoreticians and architects in the 1970s. He has worked on various buildings in Estonia and abroad.

and unveiled in 1995. It commemorates the , 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.

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

References

Villages in Järva County Kreis Jerwen {{Järva-geo-stub