Vorbuse is a village in Tartu urban municipality,

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

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 ...

. It is located northwest 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 ...

, about from the city centre. Vorbuse is bordered by the

Emajõgi The Emajõgi (; meaning 'mother river') is a river in Estonia which flows from Võrtsjärv, Lake Võrtsjärv through Tartu County into Lake Peipus, crossing the city of Tartu for . It has a length of . The Emajõgi is sometimes called the Suur E ...

River to the northeast and by the

Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

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road (part of E263) to the south. The Tallinn–Tartu railway passes through the village and crosses the Emajõgi over the Jänese railway bridge. As of the 2011 census, the village's population was 258. Prior to the 2017 administrative reform of local governments, Vorbuse was located in

Tähtvere Parish Tähtvere Parish was a rural municipality in Tartu County, Estonia. In 2017, it was merged into Tartu City municipality. Settlements ;Small boroughs: Ilmatsalu - Märja ;Villages: Haage - Ilmatsalu - Kandiküla - Kardla - Pihva - Rahinge ...

. The wrestler August Pikker (1889–1976) was born in Vorbuse.

Gallery

File:Jänese railway bridge.jpg, Jänese railway bridge over

between Vorbuse and Maramaa File:Jänese raudteesild.JPG, File:Valgussambad Vorbusel.JPG,

Light pillar A light pillar or ice pillar is an atmospheric optics, atmospheric optical phenomenon in which a vertical light beam, beam of light appears to extend above and/or below a light source. The effect is created by the Reflection (physics), reflection ...

s in Vorbuse

References

Villages in Tartu County {{tartu-geo-stub