Cesvaine
| Cesvaine ( German : Seßwege) | |||
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 Latvia
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| Landscape: | Livonia ( Latvian : Vidzeme ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Cesvaines novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 56 ° 58 ' N , 26 ° 18' E | ||
| Residents : | 1,527 | ||
| Area : | 5.1 km² | ||
| Population density : | 299 inhabitants per km² | ||
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| City law: | since 1991 | ||
| Website: | www.cesvaine.lv | ||
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Cesvaine (German: Seßwegen ) is a city in eastern Latvia and the center of the administrative district of the same name. In 2015 Cesvaine had around 1,500 inhabitants.
history
In 1209 Seßwegen came into the possession of the Bishop of Livonia . In place of the wooden Latgallian fortifications, a brick castle was built until 1240 around which a settlement was formed. In 1577 the castle was destroyed by Tsar Ivan the Terrible . The crew was killed because of their long resistance. In 1582 the region came under the rule of Poland-Lithuania . During the Second Northern War , the castle was again captured and destroyed by Russian troops in 1656.
Since 1815, which was Good Cesvaine owned by the family of Wulf. After 1850 Baron Wulf had the abandoned village rebuilt. In 1879 a church was built in the neo-Gothic style. According to designs by the Berlin architects Hans Grisebach and August Dinklage , the Seßwegen Castle was built next to the castle ruins from 1890 to 1897 . In 1922 the manor land was expropriated and divided up for settler positions.
During the Second World War, the front line ran through this area for a long time in 1944. Cesvaine was the base of a Latvian SS division.
In 1991 Cesvaine received city rights. In 2002 the castle partially burned down. It could be restored through public funds and donations.
Cesvaines novads
In 2009 the city was merged with the surrounding municipality to Cesvaines novads. In 2010, 3114 inhabitants lived in an area of 190.5 km². The area is wooded with many lakes.
people
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751–1792), Baltic German writer
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. 587-588.
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .