| Coordinates: | 57°21'44,9'' N 25°05'19,34'' E Google Maps |
| No: | 14 (full list of landmarks) |
| Category: | Palaces and manor houses |
| Address: | (Cesis district), Pargauja region, Raiskums municipality, north from Lake Ungurs, in Ungurmuiza |
| Year of construction: | 1732 |
| Architectural style: | Barocco |
| Condition: | Good |
| Values: | Architecture |
| Conservation status: | Architecture monument of state importance No.6260 (whole complex of buildings with park). |
Ungurmuiza manor house from southwest
2008.03.21.
Ungurmuiza manor house belongs to oldest wooden palaces in Latvia - it is constructed in 1732, rather soon after the Great Northern War. In these hard times in Russian Empire it was forbidden to construct stone houses outside St.Petersburg. Rebuilt in 1747. - 1753.
The ornate and harmonious Barocco style building has survived up to this day in surprisingly good condition, there has been preserved also a park with numerous enormous trees, several more Barocco style buildings - all together forming an outstanding example of cultural landscape. Manor house is adorned with distinguished wall paintings from 1750 - 1762 by Limbazi decorator Georg Dietrich Hirsch, there are other valuable monuments of art.
Chronology
- 1451 - Ungurmuiza as separate property is separated, named after Ungern family
- 1728 - Ungurmuiza (land property) is purchased by Campenhausen family
- 1732 - completed construction of the new manor house
- 1754 - both floors of manor house built, the centre of manor developed
- 1939 - family of Campenhausens leaves Ungurmuiza
- 1953 - 1989 - Kudums elementary school operating in the palace