Skrīveri

Skrīveri
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State :	Latvia
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Administrative district :	Skrīveru novads
Coordinates :	56 ° 39 '  N , 25 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 56 ° 38 '48 "  N , 25 ° 7' 20"  E
Residents :	2,633 (Jun 3, 2015)
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Height :	75  m
Website:	www.skriveri.lv
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Skrīveri (German: Römerhof) is a place in Latvia , southeast of Riga on the right bank of the Daugava .

history

The place developed around the Römerhof estate, which Gotthard Kettler had given to a certain Stephan Römer. This is how the name "Römerhof" came about. The Latvian name Skrīveri is derived from the Swedish "skreivet" (to write). Because in 1634 the property came into the possession of the Swedish notary J. Niemeier, who was sometimes referred to as the “scribe”.

When the Römerhof train station was opened in 1882, today's village began to develop. Since 1892 at the latest, the estate has belonged to the Livonian dendrologist Max von Sivers , who founded a tree nursery and an arboretum there together with the garden architect Walter von Engelhardt . The mansion was destroyed in the Russian Revolution of 1905 .

In the municipality of Skrīveri there is a 10-hectare reservoir of the Brasla River in the Dunes .

Personalities

• Jānis Krūmiņš (1894–1938), Latvian communist, victim of Stalinism

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 , p. 517.
• Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Heinrich von Hagemeister : materials for a history of the country estates of Livonia , vol. 1. Eduard Frantzen's bookstore, Riga 1836, p. 77 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
2. ↑ Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 517.