Rundāle (place)
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 Latvia
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| Landscape: | Semgallia ( Latvian : Zemgale ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Rundāles novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 56 ° 25 ' N , 24 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 734 (Jun 3, 2015) | ||
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| Height : | 17 m | ||
| Website: | www.rundale.lv | ||
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Rundāle (also Pilsrundāle ; German Ruhenthal ) is a place in southern Latvia and the center of the district of the same name (Rundāles novads).
history
The place is first mentioned in writing in 1280, when Konrad von Feuchtwangen , the Landmeister of the Teutonic Order in Livonia , built a castle there. From 1736 the baroque Rundāle Palace was built here.
From 1866 there was a separate community from the castle. In 2009 the municipalities of Rundāle, Svitene and Viesturi merged into one administrative unit.
Rundāle Castle
Since 2011, two obelisks made of gray granite have been in the castle park to commemorate the soldiers of the Napoleonic War buried there and the fallen German soldiers of the First World War .
literature
- Hans Feldmann , Heinz von zur Mühlen (Hrsg.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-06889-6 , pp. 526-527.
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .
Individual proof
- ↑ New monument inaugurated in Rundale, Latvia. In: Voice & Way 3/2011, p. 26.