Auce
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Auce (; ; , previously also Vecauce) is a town in Dobele Municipality, in the Semigallia region of Latvia. It is situated near the Lithuanian border.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Auce
- Settlement.other_name
- Vecauce
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_shield
- Auce COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Auce, Raiņa iela (P96, P104).jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Auce
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Dobele Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1924
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Latvia
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- above
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Latvia
- Settlement.leader_title
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name
- Vija Keršus
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Number of city council members
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Auce
- Population
- 2154
- Area
- 3.61
- Official website
- www.auce.lv
- Image
- Auce, Raiņa iela (P96, P104).jpg
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- Commons category
- Auce
- P6482
- Auce
- postal code
- LV-3708
- inception
- 1924-00-00
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Auce (; ; , previously also Vecauce) is a town in Dobele Municipality, in the Semigallia region of Latvia. It is situated near the Lithuanian border.
== History == Before the 13th century, the territory of Auce was a part of a Semigallian Spārnene county. After the partition of Semigallia in 1254, the territory was granted to the Archbishopric of Riga. Auce is first mentioned in written sources in 1426 as Owcze. In 1616, the Old Auce () manor is mentioned for the first time when there was a regional assembly that was held (landtag) of the Duchy of Courland. In 1667, the first Lutheran church was erected in Auce. From 1768 until the Latvian agrarian reforms in the 1920s, the Old Auce manor was property of the Baltic German von Medem family.