Kaucminde Manor (german: Gut Kauzminde/Kauzmünde) is a manor house, also referred as palace due to its design, in the historical region of
Zemgale
Semigallia, also spelt Semigalia, ( lv, Zemgale; german: Semgallen; lt, Žiemgala; pl, Semigalia; liv, Zemgāl) is one of the Historical Latvian Lands located in the south of the Daugava river and the north of the Saule region of Samogitia. ...
, in
Latvia
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.
Kaucminde palace (Saulaine)
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History
The manor house was built around 1780 for Count Peter Ludwig von der Pahlen
Peter Ludwig Graf von der Pahlen (russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Па́лен, translit= Pyotr Alekseyevich Palen; , Palms Manor, Palms (now ) – , Mitau (now )), a Baltic-German courtier and general, played a pivotal role in the a ...
by Danish
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-born architect
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Severin Jensen. A project to attach the manor house to the adjacent buildings was completed in 1912, so the semi-circular complex is also called ''Kaucminde Palace''.[
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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 ...
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Kaucminde Manor
Manor houses in Latvia
Bauske County
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