Skrīveri (german: Römerhof) is a

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in the

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region of

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, near

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. Skrīveri had 2,424 residents in 2022. In Skrīveri there is a Municipal council, Andrejs Upītis Skrīveri Secondary School, music and art school, kindergarten "Sprīdītis", post office, Catholic church, culture house, library, Andrejs Upīts memorial museum. South of Skriveri near the highway A6 is and Skriveri Agricultural Research Institute.

History

The settlement is located on the land of the former Römerhof estate, which

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had given a certain Stephan Römer. This is how the name came about. In 1634 property became part of . The Latvian name Skrīveri is derived from the sv, skreivet (to write) since in 1634 the property became possession of the Swedish notary Johann Niemier, who was also referred simply as the “scribe”. When the Römershof train station was opened in 1882 village Skrīveri began to develop. Since 1892 at the latest, the estate has belonged to the Livonian dendrologist (1857–1919), who together with the garden architect

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founded a

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and an

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. During the

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the

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was destroyed. Hans Feldmann, Heinz von Zur Mühlen ''Baltisches historisches Ortslexikon'', Part 2 Böhlau, 760 pages, 1985. Page 517 In 1925, Skriveri was granted village status, and in 1958

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, status which was lost in 1990. In 1956, Skriveri Food Factory was founded, which started producing the favorite candy " Gotiņa".

Geography

In the municipality of Skrīveri there is

Daugava , be, Заходняя Дзвіна (), liv, Vēna, et, Väina, german: Düna , image = Fluss-lv-Düna.png , image_caption = The drainage basin of the Daugava , source1_location = Valdai Hills, Russia , mouth_location = Gulf of Riga, Baltic Se ...

tributary and tributary which also includes a 10 hectare reservoir. Along the right bank of the river, there is a 3.6 km long tourist trail.

Climate

Skrīveri has a

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(

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''Dfb'').

Demographics

Within existing limits, according to CSB data.

People

* * *

Andrejs Upīts Andrejs Upīts (4 December 1877, Skrīveri parish, Russian Empire – 17 November 1970, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Latvian teacher, poet, short story writer. Career and literary activity Andrejs Upīts, while writing for the newspaper "Mājas vie ...

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