Vecpiebalga
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 Latvia
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| Landscape: | Livonia ( Latvian : Vidzeme ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Vecpiebalgas novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 57 ° 4 ' N , 25 ° 49' E | ||
| Residents : | 554 | ||
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| Height : | 215 m | ||
| Website: | www.vecpiebalga.lv | ||
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Vecpiebalga (German: Alt-Pebalg ) is a village in northeast Latvia and the center of the administrative unit of the same name (Latvian: Vecpiebalgas novads ).
history
The Archbishop of Riga had a castle, first mentioned in 1318, built near today's village of Vecpiebalga. During the Livonian War in 1559 a first attempt by Russian troops to take the castle failed; they succeeded in the second attempt in 1577 when they occupied Livonia. It was restored after the war damage, but fell into disrepair in the 18th century, so that since then only ruins are left to the south-east of today's location.
The village arose around the Alt-Pebalg estate, about 3 km from the castle between two lakes.
A church had existed since 1345. The current middle school was founded in 1860, destroyed during the 1905 revolution and rebuilt in the 1930s.
The Kalna Kaibēni house of the brothers Matīss and Reinis Kaudzīte , who opened a new chapter in Latvian literary history in 1879 with the novel Mērnieku laiki, has been converted into a museum in the municipality . Most of the novel is set in Vecpiebalga. It was published in 2012 under the title “ Landvermesserzeiten ”, translated into German by Valdis Bisenieks, by Kaspars Kļaviņš publishing house in Salzburg, ISBN 978-3-9503342-0-3 .
Vecpiebalgas novads
In 2009 the municipalities of Dzērbene, Ineši, Kaive, Taurenes and Vecpiebalga merged into one administrative district. (See also: Administrative division of Latvia ). In 2010, 4781 inhabitants were registered.
Personalities
- Michael von Reineke (1801-1859), Vice Admiral, was born on Gut Grothusenshof in the parish of Alt-Pebalg
- Reinis Kaudzīte (1839–1920), teacher and writer, with his brother the author of the first novel in Latvian ( see above ).
- Matīss Kaudzīte (1848–1926), teacher, publicist and writer, with his brother the author of the first novel in the Latvian language ( see above ).
- Maria Guleke lived temporarily in the pastorate Alt-Pebalg with her cousin, the provost Rudolf Guleke . Already in 1883 she translated the novel by the Kaudzīte brothers ( Landvermesszeiten ) into German (in a shortened version).
- Martyn Iwanowitsch Lazis (1888–1938), communist revolutionary, Soviet politician.
- Johann Sehwers (1868–1940), teacher, linguist and chess composer
- Kārlis Skalbe (1879–1945), poet
Twin town
- Bürgel (Thuringia) ( Germany ) since 2006
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. 456-457.
- 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. 456.
- ↑ Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, p. 457.
