Vaiņode
| Vaiņode ( German : Wainoden) | |||
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| Landscape: | Courland ( Latvian : Kurzeme ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Vaiņodes novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 56 ° 25 ′ N , 21 ° 51 ′ E | ||
| Residents : | 1,759 | ||
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| Height : | 147 m | ||
| Website: | www.vainode.lv | ||
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Vaiņode (German: Wainoden ) is a village in southwest Latvia , on the border with Lithuania . It is the center of the district of the same name (Vaiņodes Novads).
history
The village emerged when a train station was established on the Liepāja - Mažeikiai line, built in 1871 .
During the First World War , from 1916 to the north of the town, the airship port of Wainoden of the German Imperial Navy was located , the hangars of which were later reused as market halls in Riga.
In the 1930s, Vaiņode was a popular health resort, where various sanatoriums were located. So was u. a. Groß-Bahten Castle, the manor house of the Bahten Manor (Bāta), built in 1905 , north of Vaiņode, used as a lung sanatorium from 1920.
The Red Army operational after 1945 here the largest military airfield in the Baltics. Today these facilities have fallen apart.
Vaiņodes novads
Since 2009, the municipalities of Vaiņode and Embūte have formed an administrative community with a total of 2932 inhabitants (as of July 1, 2010).
Attractions
- Former synagogue , now a Catholic church
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. 672-673.
- Sigurds Rusmanis, Ivars Vīks: Kurzeme . Izdevniecība Latvijas Enciklopēdija, Riga 1993, ISBN 5-89960-030-6 , p. 84.
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .
Footnotes
- ↑ Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 673.
- ↑ Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 52 and 673.