Dundaga
| Dundaga ( German : Dondangen) | |||
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 Latvia
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| Landscape: | Courland ( Latvian : Kurzeme ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Dundagas novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 57 ° 31 ' N , 22 ° 21' E | ||
| Residents : | 1,583 (Jun 3, 2015) | ||
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| Height : | 63 m | ||
| Website: | www.dundaga.lv | ||
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Dundaga ( German Dondangen ) is a village in western Latvia and the center of the administrative district of the same name.
history
The place first appears in documents as Donedange in 1245 . The property had been in the possession of the Bishop of Riga and the Cathedral Chapter of Riga since 1252 . In 1434 it was sold to the Bishop of Courland . In 1711 the manor came to the Osten-Sacken family by inheritance . Princess Christiane Charlotte von der Osten-Sacken converted the Dondangen estate into a Fideikommiss in 1796 . At the beginning of the 20th century, the Dondangen estate , from which the municipality of Dundaga emerged, was the largest in the Baltic States with 102,400 hectares .
During the Second World War , the SS training area at Seelager was established here in 1943 . Forced laborers as well as concentration camp prisoners from the Kaiserwald concentration camp had to do the construction work. The residents of the area were forcibly relocated.
Dondangen Castle
Dondangen Castle was built by the Teutonic Order in 1249 and was first mentioned in a document in 1318. From the 17th century it was converted into a mansion to meet the requirements. During the revolution in 1905 the building was burned down. A reconstruction took place in 1909 according to the designs of the Brunswick architect Hermann Pfeiffer. From 1926 the castle was used as a school and as an administration building.
Dundagas novads
In 2009 the parishes of Kolka and Dundaga merged.
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. 117-118.
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .
- Sigurds Rusmanis, Ivars Vīks: Kurzeme . Izdevniecība Latvijas Enciklopēdija, Riga 1993, ISBN 5-89960-030-6 , pp. 128-131.
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 2: Latvia (South Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 117.
