Saue

Saue is a town in north-western Estonia and the administrative centre of Saue Parish in Harju County. It lies only a short way from Tallinn, the national capital, with Keila, Saku and Laagri among its closest neighbouring centres, and its territory covers about 3.5 square kilometres with roughly 6,100 inhabitants. The settlement grew from a manor estate established in the 1620s, took on new life after the Saint Petersburg to Tallinn to Paldiski railway passed it in 1870, and developed a garden settlement in the 1920s. It was united with Tallinn in the 1960s, was granted town rights in 1993 and became a separate urban municipality in 1994. In 2017 the town merged with neighbouring parishes to form the present Saue Parish. Saue Manor, a baroque manor house complex, is among the finest examples of its kind in Estonia.