[1] The Tartu–Valga railway passes on its western side; the nearest station is 4 km away in Palupera village.

Hellenurme Manor (German: Hellenorm) was first mentioned in 1641, when it belonged to the Wrangells.

The one-storey main building was built from stone at the end of the 18th century and rebuilt in the 19th.

About a kilometre from the manor's centre is a Classicist chapel and Middendorff family graveyard.

Zoologist and explorer Alexander von Middendorff, who lived in the manor from 1842 to 1845, is buried there.