Lielvārde
Sign in to saveLielvārde (; ), population 5885, is a town in Ogre Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the right bank of the Daugava river, 52 km southeast of Riga. The town is also the extra-territorial center of the adjacent Lielvārde Parish.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Lielvārde
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- Town
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- Lielvarde COA.svg
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lielvārdes luterāņu baznīca 2000-05-20.jpg
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- 300px
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- Lielvārde Lutheran church
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- Country
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- Municipality
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- Ogre Municipality
- Settlement.established_title
- Town rights
- Settlement.established_date
- 1992
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- Latvia
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- above
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- 300
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- Location in Latvia
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- Rural territory
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- 60
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
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Lielvārde (; ), population 5885, is a town in Ogre Municipality in the Vidzeme region of Latvia, on the right bank of the Daugava river, 52 km southeast of Riga. The town is also the extra-territorial center of the adjacent Lielvārde Parish.
==History== thumbnail|left|300px|Prospect of Lennewarden on the Daugava river, 52 [[versts from Riga in 1792. From Johann Christoph Brotze's book Sammlung verschiedner Liefländischer Monumente.]] The area was a contact zone between the Finnic Livonians and the Balts, and many prehistoric artifacts have been uncovered there. A Baltic hill-fort named Lennewarden being taken in fief by Albert of Buxhoeveden in 1201 is mentioned in the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia. This site is called Dievukalns (Hill of the Gods) in Latvian. A stone castle was constructed by the Riga diocese in 1229; its ruins are still accessible today.