Karksi Parish

[2][3] Karksi-Nuia Ainja - Allaste - Äriküla - Hirmuküla - Karksi - Kõvaküla - Leeli - Lilli - Mäeküla - Metsaküla - Morna - Muri - Oti - Pärsi - Polli - Pöögle - Sudiste - Suuga - Tuhalaane - Univere Karksi was first mentioned in documents in 1241.

St. Peter's Church in Karksi with its striking tower was built on a side wall of the castle of the Teutonic Order destroyed in 1708.

Today's Karksi mansion was built in the 18th century in the Early Classicist style.

The Ordensburg Karkus was built in the 13th century and destroyed in 1708.

This Viljandi County location article is a stub.

Karkus castle ruins
"Ruins of the Karkus castle in the morning", 1800, Johann Christoph Brotze's book Collection of various Liefländish monuments