Vienkoči Park

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Spider sculpture in Vienkoči Park (2020)

The Vienkoči Park (also Park Vienkoči called; Latvian Vienkoci parks , dugout Park, Park of canoes') is a sculpture park ( open air museum ) in the Latvian District Līgatne or in the national park Gaujas . The area of ​​Vienkoči Park is 9.25 hectares. The park creator and owner is the sculptor Rihards Vidzickis.

presentation

Vienkoči Park was founded in 2003, the original idea came about in 1999. It has been officially open to visitors since 2007. On the grounds of the park there are wooden and metal sculptures that are modeled on living or extinct animals as well as characters from fairy tales and objects that were created from historical sources. Between the park paths, true to detail, based on old photo materials and plans, miniature copies of some of the no longer existing estates and water mills are installed (for example a model of the “Nurmiži manor house”, in Latvian Nurmižu muiža or a miniature model of the “hand factory”, which was the first paper mill in Līgatne ).

gallery

  • Scorpion sculpture

  • Skull sculpture

  • Miniature replica of a mansion

  • Miniature model of the first paper mill in Līgatne (the "hand factory")

  • Miniature model of the first paper mill in Līgatne (the "hand factory")

  • Owl sculpture

  • Cancer sculpture

Wood museum

On the grounds of the Vienkoči Park there is a workshop museum for woodworking ("Museum of Carpentry and Crockery Workshop") in an old, now converted barn. Project planning for the museum started in 2011. It has been officially open to visitors since 2014. In the museum there are countless historical tools and the workbenches that were used for the production of fine furniture, picture frames, decorative elements, etc., for example during the Latvian classicism.

  • Planes in the Woodworking Workshop Museum (Vienkoču Park)

  • Various wooden tools in the Woodworking Workshop Museum (Vienkoču Park)

Light night

Every year on the first Saturday in October, the atmosphere and light event “Uguns nakts” takes place in Vienkoči Park, during which the park forest is illuminated with numerous lights.

Web links

Commons : Vienkoču parks  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cluster Program Project No. 3.2.1.1/16/A/009: Hidden in noble silence. Holidays in the Enter Gauja estates . National Development Plan. 2020. p. 10. f.

Coordinates: 57 ° 11 '30.4 "  N , 25 ° 3' 12.3"  E