Three Brothers (Riga)
The Three Brothers ( Latvian Trīs brāļi ) are an ensemble of buildings in the old town of Riga . House 17 is the oldest secular stone building in the city, it was built in the 15th century with features of Dutch Renaissance houses. The house could once have belonged to a master baker; a picture of a guild or family coat of arms was found with ears of grain under the plaster. The facade of House 19 was sculptured in the Mannerist style, House 21 received a baroque gable.
Erected on the smallest of plots as commercial and trading houses, people lived, worked and traded in these houses . All three houses are equipped with wooden ceilings, in the middle of which there is a gap through which goods could be lowered with a rope to the different floors.
The Three Brothers were destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in the 1950s. Today the buildings house the Museum of Latvian Architecture and the offices of the Monument Protection Agency.
literature
- Jochen Könnecke, Vladislav Rubzov: Latvia . In: DuMont art travel guide . DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7701-6386-9 , Riga - All around the Jakobikirche; Three brothers, S. 65 .
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Coordinates: 56 ° 57 ′ 1.2 ″ N , 24 ° 6 ′ 15.2 ″ E