Gārsene Manor is a Neo-Gothic manor house located in
Gārsene Parish,
Jēkabpils Municipality
Jēkabpils Municipality () is a municipality in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by Merger (politics), merging Ābeļi Parish, Dignāja Parish, Dunava Parish, Kalna Parish, Leimaņi Parish, Rubene Parish and Zasa Parish. During the Adm ...
in the
Selonia
Selonia (; ), also known as Augšzeme (the "Highland"), is one of the Historical Latvian Lands encompassing the eastern part of the historical region of Semigallia () as well as a portion of northeastern Lithuania. Its main city and cultural ce ...
region of
Latvia
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. The palace houses a museum where visitors can view an exhibition about the
Baltic-German
Baltic Germans ( or , later ) are ethnic German inhabitants of the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, in what today are Estonia and Latvia. Since their resettlement in 1945 after the end of World War II, Baltic Germans have drastically decli ...
von Budberg family.
History
Gārsene manor was built in
Neo-Gothic
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century ...
style for the von Budberg family around 1856 next to a rectangular courtyard. The two-story portion of the manor was built first, with a single story wing added in 1885.
The family owned the manor until the
Latvian agrarian reforms in the 1920s. In 1939, the building was rebuilt after the project of the school architect Vassiliev,
[ and since 1940 it is part of the Gārsene local ]elementary school
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.[
An 18th century ]mill
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on the estate was remodeled with a Neo-Gothic façade in the second half of the 19th century. There is also a wide landscape park with ponds and decorative bridges adjacent to the manor. There are thirty different attractions for the visitors to see, one of which leads to the baronial family resting place, which is located adjacent to the mill.
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. This list does not include castles, which are listed in a List of castles in Latvia, separate article. And as there are more than 1000 manor houses and palaces in ...
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Manor houses in Selonia
Museums in Latvia
Jēkabpils Municipality