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Coordinates: 56°58'41,34'' N 24°03'45,32'' E Google Maps
(localisation not exact, possible mistake up to 300 metres)
No:141        (list of all monuments)
Category:Palaces and manor houses
Address:Riga, Spilve, in the area of Spilve meadows, northwest from Spilve airfield
Versions of name:Metsue von Danenstern Hof
Year of construction:17th c.?
Condition:Does not exist
Value:Architecture

 

This summer manor house belonged to the most affluent merchant of Riga in 17th century - Metsue von Danenstern. Manor hosue is shown on a map by J.C.Brotze which in turn has been based on older map of surveyor E.Tolk from 1700. Map is schematic and exact localisation of manor is not possible from it.

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Manor of Metsue von Danenstern in map from 1700

Manor of Metsue von Danenstern, fragment of the map by J.C.Brotze from map of E.Tolk. 1700


References

  1. Broce J.K. Zīmējumi un apraksti, 2.sējums, Rīga, Zinātne, 1996, p.270.

 

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