Aizdzire, Kandava parish, Kandavas region
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Aizdzire Manor is a collection of buildings, ruins, and a park that once formed the core of the Aizdzire estate. It is located close to the city of Kandava in Courland, Latvia. Over the past decades, the estate has been exposed to decay and destruction, and the park has become a wilderness. Aizdzire Manor is part of a valuable cultural and historical heritage – one which we want to conserve and step by step fill with new life.
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Knights’ manor. Aizdzidre, like many other manors, gradually formed from a number of small fiefdoms. In 1397, according to Courland Rights of Fiefdom, Villa Assensirn was awarded to Heinrich Muste.
The manor masters’ quarters were constructed in late 18th century and in early 19th century. In 1912, the manor owner was the county marshal Count Alexander von Koskull. A windmill, a brick kiln, a lime blast furnace was operated at the manor, and East Frisian cattle was bred there.
Following the agrarian reform in the 1920-ties, the Aizdzire Manor Centre was leased by one Bergmanis. A model farm was set up in the former manor.
During the Second World War, German occupation institutions settled Russian-speaking residents from Pskov and Novgorod oblost at the Aizdzire manor and surrounding farms. Many of them stayed on to work at the Soviet farm “Valdeķi”, which was set up in 1945 at the Aizdzire manor centre. Farms were set up at the auxiliary manor buildings. In 1969, the Soviet farm “Valdeķi” was added to the Kandava Soviet technical school.
Today, the former masters’ quarters is in a very poor technical condition. The previously rather vast landscape park has overgrown, too.
Can be viewed from the outside.
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