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Dubulti is the administrative center and the oldest part of
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Jūrmala
Jūrmala (; "seaside") is a state city in Latvia, about west of Riga. Jūrmala is a resort town stretching and sandwiched between the Gulf of Riga and the Lielupe River. It has a stretch of white-sand beach, and a population of 49,325 in 2019 ...
, Latvia.
History
The settlement derives its name from the Lett Dubults, who had an inn there in the 15th century. Dubulti however is first mentioned in the 18th century. A fishing settlement was later formed. After thePatriotic War of 1812
The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, the Army of Twenty nations, and the Patriotic War of 1812 was launched by Napoleon Bonaparte to force the Russian Empire back into the continental block ...
, Dubulti became a rest point for those going to Courland. The first vacationing noblemen visited the local beaches in 1814. The Germans once called Dubulti 'Judenburg' because of Jewish inhabitants who had rights to settle there. In 1841 the settlement gained an official name, Dubbeln (russian: Дуббельн).
Dubulti is situated where a meandering loop of River Lielupe
The Lielupe ( in Latvian literally: ''Large River'', lt, Lielupė, german: Kurländische Aa) is a river in central Latvia. Its length is (the length would reach if the Mēmele River were counted as part of the Lielupe). The surface area o ...
creates an isthmus
An isthmus (; ; ) is a narrow piece of land connecting two larger areas across an expanse of water by which they are otherwise separated. A tombolo is an isthmus that consists of a spit or bar, and a strait is the sea counterpart of an isthmus ...
only wide. Erosion from the river was a major problem in the 18th century and threatened the village. The road running close to the river had to be relocated behind the closest land plots to the current location at Zigfrīda Meierovica prospekts.
JŪRMALA, Nature and Cultural Heritage, Ed. LaimaSlava, Neputns 2004, , page 113-114
In 1920, Dubulti became the administrative centre of Rīgas Jūrmala. The Town Hall was built in 1930.
The inn of Dubults was demolished in the 1930s.
Among Dubulti's landmarks are the Lutheran
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...
church (built in 1907–09), “Marienbad” sanatorium founded by doctor Johan Christian NordstroemJurmala Baltic Beach Health Resort/ref> in 1870 and an Orthodox church, built around 1860. The Dubulti railway station was established in 1877. In 1951 Dubulti became the end station of the first ever electrified railway line in Latvian territory – Rīga-Dubulti. Electrification was then extended to Ķemeri station few years later.
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