Cēre Manor ( lv, Cēres muižas pils, german: Zehren ) is a manor house in
Cēres Parish
Cēre parish is an administrative unit of Tukums Municipality, Latvia
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in
Tukums Municipality
Tukums Municipality ( lv, Tukuma novads) is a Latvian municipality situated partly in the region of Semigallia, partly in Courland and partly in Vidzeme. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Degole Parish, Džūkste Parish, Irlava P ...
in the historical region of
Courland
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, in western
Latvia
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.
History
Cēre Manor (Knight Manor) was established in 1352 from the ancient Riga Heinrich county.
From 1492 till 1658 the following noble families owned manor: the von Altenbok family, then the family of von Funk, von Rap, von Shilling, Heiking and von Han. The last owners of the manor from 1883 to 1920 were von Knigge family.
In the 1860s the two-storeyed manor house of Cēre Manor was rebuilt. The project to modernize the manor house was implemented by Theodore Zeiler, a Kurzeme architect.
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At the beginning of the 20th century the manor estate had 1022 hectares of land, two half manors (Baltklavs and Lilija manors), a pub and 19 farmhouses. The manor had a pub, a dairy, a cheese factory, a windmill and a tar mill.
At the beginning of 1919, during the Bolshevik revolution, the Cēre Parish Executive Committee was operating in the manor house. Manor owner baron Adam von Knigge had to flee to escape arrest. Later, the main manor house remained empty. post office
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and a telephone exchange, Cēre dairy company "Spēks (Power)" and Small farmers' promotion cooperative "Palīgs (Helper)". There was also the Agricultural Society, the Ceres Consumer Society, the Ceres Mutual Insurance Society, the Ceres Branch of the Latvian Society for the Promotion of Culture, as well as the Division of the Guard Regiment, the Small Regiment and the Guard Circle.
From the autumn of 1944 until the end of the war, there was a German military hospital
A military hospital is a hospital owned and operated by a military. They are often reserved for the use of military personnel and their dependents, but in some countries are made available to civilians as well. They may or may not be located on a ...
in the former mansion. The Cēre primary school is still located in the manor house of Cēre Manor today. There is a small museum in the school. Cēres muiža
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See also
*List of palaces and manor houses in Latvia
This is a list of palaces and manor houses in Latvia built after the 16th century. Palaces and manors which are now part of the Zemgale region were then part of the Selonia region, and therefore are differentiated for clarity. This list does not ...
References
Manor houses in Latvia
Tukums Municipality
Courland
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