Driksa Street, Jelgava

Driksa Street is a small street in Jelgava. It starts at Jānis Čakste Boulevard and ends as a pedestrian street at the intersection with Pasta Street at the Jelgava Bus Station.

During the Second World War the street building was destroyed, nowadays it consists of buildings built during the Latvian SSR and nowadays, there is a shopping center “Pilsētas Pasāža” ("City Passage") on Driksas Street 4.

17th-century maps of Jelgava include Katherinenstraße, named after the Catherine's Shelter. In 1924 it was renamed J. Veismanis Street, but on July 11, 1950 it was renamed Driksa Street.

Prominent buildings
The noble club at 20 Katrinas (now Driksas) street in Jelgava (1917).

Catherine street (Katharinen- Strasse) now Driksas Street (1917).

Katrina Shelter (Katharinenstift) for noble virgins. Built on the corner of Katrina and Palejas streets in 1699. In 1775 the house became the property of Katharina v. Bismarck, sister of the Duke's widow, Benign Gottlieb von Trot-Treiden, who in 1780 built a noble virgin shelter there. In 1778, Duke Peter approved the statute of the shelter. Destroyed in 1944.

The Duke City Chancellery on Katrinas Street, where the throne of Saxon Moritz, a candidate for the throne, was housed in 1726.

The noble club (Adelsklub), or Great Club building, built in 1809 in place of the Duke's orangery. During the First World War, the building housed the House of Officials, but in 1927 it became the property of the city and established a garrison club. The small hall of the club was painted with Latvian ornaments, along with an ancestral room in the Latvian style, designed by Arvīds Miervaldis Spertāls. Destroyed in 1944.
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