OTEPÄÄ RURAL MUNICIPALITY

VALGA COUNTY ESTONIA

Estonia Area 45 227 km2 Population 1,34 miljonit 15 county Monthly wage 809 € Unemployment rate 7,3% (01.12.2011)

Valga County

Valga County

Area 2046,49 km²

Population 33 68613 government Monthly wage 627 € Unemployment rate 10,4% (01.12.2011)

Location Tallinn 250 km Narva 265 km Riga - 155 km Sankt-Peterburg – 410 km Helsinki – 300 km Berliin- 970 km

POPULATION in OTEPÄÄ

NUMBER OF INHABITANTS

4162 (01.01.2011)

AREA OF MUNICIPALITY

217 KM²²

HISTORICAL FACTS

FIRST MENTIONED IN NOVGOROD CHRONICLES IN 1116

OTEPÄÄ MEANS “BEARS HEAD” (OTI PÄÄ)

THE STATE FLAG – BLUE, BLACK AND WHITE WAS BLESSED HERE ON 4 JUNE

1884

IN 1936 OTEPÄÄ BECAME A TOWN

Municipal budget EUR per person in 2010

General information

Density: 18 persons/km2

Unemployment rate: 10%

Average gross wages in month: 700 EUR (in 2010)

GENERAL INFORMATION

THREE MAIN INDUSTRIES: TOURISM SERVICES (Pühajärve SPA and Holiday resort; Tehvandi Sportcenter, Hotel Karupesa, Otepää Adventure Park, Kuutsemäe Ski Center, Bernhard SPA hotel, Villa Müllerbek)

TIMBER INDUSTRY (UPM Kymmene AS, Pro Fixum OÜ)

MEAT INDUSTRY (Otepää Meat Industry Edgar OÜ, Otepää Oskar OÜ)

THREE KINDERGARTENS, TWO MUNICIPAL SCHOOLS, ONE PRIVATE SCHOOL (Sports) , ONE HOBBY SCHOOL – OTEPÄÄ MUSIC SCHOOL

Number of companies by the number of employees

THE BIGGEST ENTERPRISES BY THE NUMBER OF TAXPAYERS IN OTEPÄÄ

1. AS UPM-KYMMENE OTEPÄÄ

2. SA TEHVANDI SPORDIKESKUS

3. PÜHAJÄRVE SPA JA PUHKEKESKUS

AS PARMET

OTEPÄÄ LIHATÖÖSTUS EDGAR OÜ

OÜ OTEPÄÄ OSKAR

AS OTEKS

HOTELL KARUPESA

ETC

UPM-KYMMENE OTEPÄÄ

OTEPÄÄ PLYWOOD MILL Personnel: 176

Products: WISA birch plywood for construction, furniture and transport industries

Production capacity: M3/year

50000 m3 birch playwood

History

2000: AS FSS Plywood was founded by the wood procurement companies AS Forestex and AS Sylvester operating in Estonia and the Finnish plywood manufacturer Schauman Wood Oy (UPM-Kymmene Group)

2003: UPM-Kymmene acquires entire share capital of the mill, name

changes into UPM, Otepää Plywood Mill

2008: Expansion and modernization of production

www.wisa.upm-kymmene.com

TEHVANDI SPORT CENTER FOUNDATION

Personnel: 38 www.tehvandi.ee

Services: The main services offered by Tehvandi Sport Center are offering year-round training opportunities for sportsmen, organizing competitions, offering various leisure time activities, accommodation and catering.

History and Chronology: On August 17, 1977, the Statutes were adopted; the name of the institution was the Otepää Learningand Training Center.

On September 28, 1977, the director was approved by a regulation of the Committee for Physical Culture and Sports at the Council of Ministers of the Estonian SSR. In 1977, the first employees were recruited. In 1978, the Otepää Learning and Training Center of Skiing began operating. On November 3, 1978, the main building was opened.

Order No. 161/October 3, 1991, regarding the transfer of the center to the administration of the Republic of Estonia. By order No. 75/July 7, 1993, the Center started to bear the name of Estonian Olympic Learning and Training Center "Tehvandi".

Between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2004, the Center was administered by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia.

Since January 1, 2005, the Center’s form of operating has been the Tehvandi Sport Center Foundation. The founders of the foundation were the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Estonia, the Otepää rural municipality and the Estonian Ski Association.

PÜHAJÄRVE SPA & HOLIDAY RESORT

Personnel:110

Services: accommodation, therapy and treatment, conference certre, catering, swimming pool, bowling, gym

History: Founded in 1999, situated in Otepää nature park and has 22 hectares precincts.

From 2004 the company has

implemented an environmental

management system Green Key,

which has contributed to the promotion

of sustainable mindset among

employees and customers.

www.pyhajarve.com

Parmet Ltd Personnel: 16 www.parmet.ee

Products: suspended ceilings, frontal coffers, profiles

PARMET Ltd., established in 1992, is a manufacturer of metal suspended ceilings. Year by year the company has introduced new types of suspended ceilings. In the first year only one type of plain suspended ceilings was manufactured. At present, besides different plain suspended ceilings, coffered suspended ceilings mounted on different types of frames as well as lowered ceilings are being made. PARMET started production of frontal coffers in 1995.

Steel coffers only were offered initially, but at the present

the frontal coffers are produced from the large variety of

different materials: aluminum, aluminum composite plate,

stainless steel sheet, Corten rusty steel sheet, titan zinc

sheet etc. Number of different frontal coffers types are

produced: panel, cassette, plate frontals etc.

Oteks Ltd Personnel: 24 www.oteks.ee

Products: Cotton-carpets

OTEKS AS is the manufacturing company, established in 1992. Carpet weaving is one of the main fields of activity which they have done now for more than eighteen years. They use cotton yarn/thread and also textile- material (rag) to produce our carpets. In 2004 the company started to produce PVC (polyvinylchloride) carpets.

Industrial area

Industrial area in Hundisoo

Industrial and commercial land based on the general plan

30 ha lands with infrastructure accessibility

Existing enterprises in the industrial area:

UPM Kymmene Ltd (timber industry)

Otepää Metall Ltd (metal industry)

Potential investment opportunity

In Sihva village 8 km from Otepää land (1526 m2) for public investment, has detail plan from year 2010;

MAJOR EVENTS

OTEPÄÄ – WINTER CAPITAL OF ESTONIA FIS WORLD CUP CROSS COUNTRY ICE FISHING COMPETITION KULDKALA (GOLDFISH) TARTU MARATON VARIOUS BIATHLON and TRIATLON COMPETITIONS RALLY ESTONIA LEIGO LAKE MUSIC FESTIVAL , etc

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More information

www.otepaa.ee Otepää Rural Municipality Government

Lipuväljak 13

Otepää

Phone:+372 766 4800