Līksna

Līksna ( German : Lixna)
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Basic data
State :	Latvia
Landscape:	Latgale ( Latvian : Latgale )
Administrative district :	Daugavpils novads
Coordinates :	55 ° 59 '  N , 26 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 59 '0 "  N , 26 ° 23' 0"  E
Residents :	213 (Jun 3, 2015)
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Website:	www.liksna.lv
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Līksna (German: Lixna, Lixten) is a village in southeastern Latvia .

Painting of the castle ruins

Līksna is located about 15 km northwest of the city of Daugavpils , near the Daugava River and the A6 state road . In 2010 the town and the surrounding community had 1295 inhabitants.

history

In 1770 the buildings of the Lixna estate were rebuilt in the baroque style and provided with a spacious park. The library of the Līksna Castle had 20,000 books. Līksna was a center of spiritual life in Latgale.

In the First World War, these buildings were destroyed.

Personalities

• Eduard von der Ropp (1851–1939, born in Lixna), Catholic archbishop in Russia and Lithuania
• Emilia Plater (1806–1831), known as the “Lithuanian-Polish Joan of Arc”, spent her youth in Lixna
• Noble family Plater - Syberg

literature

• Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Līksnas muiža ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Latvian) 
2. ^ Homepage of the community, accessed on October 19, 2012
3. ↑ Olga Jesse: German nobility in Latgale . In: Ilze Krokša, Aina Balaško (ed.): Vācu kultūra Latvijā. Ieskats vācu-latviešu novadu kultūras un vācu biedrību vēsturē = German culture in Latvia. Insight into the history of the German-Latvian regional cultures and the German club history . Latvijas Vācu Savienība, Riga 2009, ISBN 978-9984-39-832-7 , p. 41.