Pabaži
Pabaži (formerly Katrīnbāde ; German: Katharinenbad , also: Kathrinbad ) is a southern district of Saulkrasti in Latvia .
Originally settled by Liven , seaside resorts formed along the Baltic Sea coast in the 18th and 19th centuries, which were located along the Via Baltica (Europastraße 67). Located north of the confluence of the Inčupe in the Gulf of Riga and equipped with an elongated, pine-covered dune landscape and a wide sandy beach, this prompted the Russian Tsarina Catherine the Great , who came from Saint Petersburg , to take a bath here in 1764 . This is how the name "Katharinenbad" or "Kathrinbad" came about.
At the end of the 19th century, the landowner and fishery owner Pabaži had the beach expanded. In 1864 Kathrinbad was renamed Pabaži.
The place has its own train station at kilometer 45 on the Riga-Skulte line. The district of Saulkrasti, which was incorporated in 1950, can be reached by train or via the main road A1 .
In Pabaži there is a children's recreation camp that was set up during the Soviet Union and is now back in operation.
See also
literature
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Riga-Skulte timetable ( Memento of the original dated August 21, 2006 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.
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Coordinates: 57 ° 16 ' N , 24 ° 36' E