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Coordinates: 56°57'14,27'' N 24°06'46,23'' E Google Maps
(localisation not exact, possible mistake up to 300 metres)
No:55        (list of all monuments)
Category:Palaces and manor houses
Address:Riga, Centrs, Sand Hill, in the current Esplanade, marked very approximately
Versions of name:Gibbeke curia
Year of construction:14th c.?
Condition:Does not exist
Value:Architecture, archaeology

 

Gibbeke manor is one of the oldest manor houses in suburban Riga (now - centre of Riga), first mentioned circa 1380. In Sand Hill there were several houseowners, who shaped here fields. But in written sources there has been mentioned only one manor - Gibbeke manor.


References

  1. Šterns I. Viduslaiku Rīga ārpus Rīgas, Senā Rīga. Pētījumi pilsētas arheoloģijā un vēsturē, Rīga, Latvijas Vēstures institūts, 1998, p.349.

 

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