Piemiņas parks (Memorial park) in Džūkste

"Piemiņas parks", Džūkste, Džūkste parish, Tukums region

A monument by K. Zemdega dedicated to the sons of the Džūkste and Slampe
A monument dedicated to the sons of the Džūkste and Slampe congregation who died in World War I and during the Latvian Liberation Battles was unveiled on 17 November 1935. In the centre of it – a gigantic Finnish granite urn, which symbolises the souls of the fallen soldiers, who do not have a dwelling place in their motherland, on the steps standing is a grieving mother and a soldier with a spear and an oak-tree branch. In year 1964, the monument was added to the list of national cultural monument protection as an art monument, because it is considered to be one of the best artworks by K. Zemdega.

Monument of the Christmas Battles in Džūkste
The author of the monument dedicated to the Latvian legionaries of the 19th division, who died in the 1944 Christmas battles, is the sculptor Igors Dobičins, but the architect – Ruta Dobičina. It was first unveiled in 1990, however it was blown up in an act of vandalism the same year. A year later in 1991, by preserving what had remained from the previous monument; the authors set the monument up again.

Memorial dedicated to G. Zemgals
Memorial is situated at the “Brātiņi” house, where the Latvian President Gustavs Zemgals (1871-1939) was born. The commemorative rock was set up in year 1990 (artist A.Krievāns).

Memorial stone to the inhabitants of Džūkste, who suffered in the deportations of 1941 and 1949