Ļaudona
| Ļaudona ( German : Laudohn) | |||
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| Landscape: | Livonia ( Latvian : Vidzeme ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Madonas novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 56 ° 42 ' N , 26 ° 11' E | ||
| Residents : | 583 (25 Aug 2015) | ||
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| Website: | www.laudona.lv | ||
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Ļaudona (German: Laudohn ) is a historical place on the bank of the Aiviekste river (German: Ewst ) in eastern Latvia .
history
A Latgalian fortification of the state of Jersika near Ļaudona was dated by archaeologists to the 9th to 12th centuries. In 1274 the Archbishop of Riga had a castle built at the mouth of the Svētupupe in the Aiviekste. The Laudohn family had lived here as vassals of the Archbishop of Rigas since 1432 . The castle was destroyed in the Livonian War . In 1613 the surrounding manor became Swedish .
In 1696 a church with a community school was built. In 1703 the estate was devastated by Russian troops and belonged to the Russian Empire since the Peace of Nystad in 1721 . In 1772 a glass factory was established.
In 1846 the pastor and several thousand parishioners converted to the Orthodox faith , which led to the construction of a new church. During the 1905 revolution , the manor house was burned down.
After Latvia's independence, the estate was divided into 42 parts as part of an agricultural reform, which enabled the peasant economies to achieve a certain level of prosperity.
The Lutheran Church was destroyed in the fighting in World War II in 1944. In the post-war period, the local kolkhoz was the most important employer. The municipality belonged to the Madona district (from 2009 Madona district).
Personalities
The Austrian general Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717–1790) was born on the neighboring estate Tootzen (Latvian: Toce ).
literature
- Hans Feldmann , Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livonia and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-06889-6 , pp. 330–331.
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .