Bauska
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| Country | File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia |
| District | Bauska Municipality |
| Town rights | 1609 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Aivars Mačeks |
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| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Postal code | LV-390(1-2) |
| Calling code | +371 639 |
| Number of city council members | 11 |
| Climate | Dfb |
| Website | www |
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Bauska (Audio file "Lv-Bauska.ogg" not found) is a town in its eponymous municipality, found in the Zemgale region of southern Latvia.[1]
Bauska is located 66 km (41 mi) from the Latvian capital Riga, 62 km (38.5 mi) from Jelgava and 20 km (12 mi) from the Lithuanian border on the busy European route E67. The town is situated at the confluence of the shallow rivers Mūsa and Mēmele, where they form the Lielupe River.
Average temperatures in January are −5 °C (23 °F), and 17.5 °C (63.5 °F) in July. Rainfall averages 500–650 mm (20–26 in) annually. The 80.4% of Bauska Municipality territory is agricultural land and 13% of forests.
In previous centuries, the city was known in German as "Bauske", in Yiddish as "Boisk", in Lithuanian as "Bauskė", and in Polish as "Bowsk".
The population of Bauska is estimated to be 8,200. Bauska is the centre of Bauska Municipality, a first-level national subdivision that has a population of 24,370 with an approximate density of 30 people per km2.
History
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By the early 13th century, this territory was inhabited by Semigallian tribes. In the mid-15th century, Bauska castle was built by Germans of the Livonian Order, who then were a part of the Terra Mariana confederacy. In the shadow and protection of the castle, a small town called Schildburg grew on the narrow peninsula formed by the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers. Around 1580 on the orders of Duke Gotthard Kettler this settlement was relocated to the present location of Bauska Old Town, eventually receiving city rights sometime before 1609.
After the Livonian War, Bauska became part of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia and prospered. The castle and city suffered heavily in the 17th and 18th centuries, under attacks from Sweden in the Polish-Swedish War and the Russians in the Great Northern War. In 1706, the retreating Russian army blew up the castle. In 1711, an outbreak of plague ravaged Bauska, exterminating half of the population, and war returned once more in 1812, when Bauska, after short skirmishes, became one of Napoleon's army's transit points en route to Moscow.
Between 1812 and 1914, Bauska enjoyed a period of stability, and grew as a trade centre between Riga and Lithuania. Many inhabitants were merchants or worked in ceramic-making, but there was a large brewery and sawmill as well. Bauska was still primarily built of wooden houses: in 1823, only 6 of the 120 houses within the city were built of brick or stone. For this reason, devastating fires were not uncommon.
Historically, all social affairs had been in the hands of the privileged Baltic Germans. After 1820 Jews were allowed to settle in the city, and by 1850 made up half the population, diluting the strong German influence.
The city was taken by the German Imperial Army on July 18, 1915, and roughly half the population fled (Jews were moved out on the orders of the Russian army). In 1916, the Germans installed the city's first electrical grid and built a narrow-gauge railway connection with Jelgava–Meitene Railway.
During the Latvian War of Independence, Bauska experienced a couple of months of Red Army occupation, followed by the periods of rule by the Baltische Landeswehr and the West Russian Volunteer Army until it was liberated in the early hours of November 17, 1919, by the Latvian army.
From 1918 to 1940, the proportion of ethnic Latvians in the population grew strongly, making up 75% of the population, though the Jews and Germans still maintained a noticeable presence. In 1939, just before World War II, virtually the entire Baltic German population of Bauska repatriated to the recently occupied Reichsgau Wartheland, causing the city to lose one of its traditional ethnic populations. As part of the Holocaust during the June–August 1941, Bauska's other traditional minority, the Jews, were exterminated.
During Operation Bagration, the Soviet army reached Bauska on July 29, 1944. For the next six weeks, the city was defended by an assortment of Latvian policemen, forcibly mobilized Latvian Legion soldiers and Wehrmacht grenadiers. After Soviet shelling and air raids, almost one third of the city was destroyed and finally captured on September 14, 1944.
Post-war reconstruction was slow. Rubble remained in the streets until the 1950s. During the Soviet period, the population surpassed 10,000, as the Latvian and especially Russian populations strongly increased.
History of the Jewish community
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Bauska was home to a thriving Jewish community in the 19th century,[2] many employed as scholars or in occupations such as baking and distilling. The town hosted several notable rabbis, including Abraham Isaac Kook, later chief rabbi of Israel, Mordechai Eliasberg, and Chaim Yitzchak Bloch Hacohen.[3]
In 1850, Jews made up 50% of Bauska's population, and 60% in 1881.[4] By 1920, the Jewish population had dwindled to about a sixth of the size it had been 40 years earlier.[5] In 1941, following the Nazi invasion, the remaining Jews of Bauska and environs were tortured and executed.[6]
An exhibition on the city's Jewish history was opened in 2011 in Bauska museum[7] following a conference on Bauska's Jewish cultural heritage in the 1990s. A group of Jews who were former inhabitants of Bauska proposed to establish a memorial on the site of the Great Synagogue burnt down in July 1941. In October 2017, the "Synagogue Garden", a monument/memorial created by the Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia[8] and Latvian sculptor, Girts Burvis,[9] was dedicated on the site.[10]
Demographics
In December 2004, there were 10,178 inhabitants, 55% female and 45% male.
Tourist attractions
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Bauska Castle
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Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit the oldest building in town
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Bauska Town Hall in the Market square
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19th-century buildings on Riga street
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Stalin-era cinema building
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Suspension bridge over Mūsa
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Bauska Bus station
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Society house and library
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Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Sacrament
- Bauska castle and museum[11]
- Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit, Lutheran[12][13]
- Bauska Town Hall[14][15]
- Bauska museum[16]
- Bauska Freedom monument[17]
- Church of St. George, Orthodox[18]
- Bauska Church of the Most Holy Sacrament, Catholic[19][20]
- Stone of Peter the Great[21]
Bauska's Defenders' Monument
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On September 14, 2012, a monument to the inhabitants of city who organized the defense of Bauska against the Soviet assault in 1944 was unveiled in the city, with inscription "To the defenders of Bauska against the second Soviet occupation on July 28 – September 14, 1944".
Twin towns – sister cities
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- Template:Flagicon Hedemora, Sweden
- Template:Flagicon Khashuri, Georgia
- Template:Flagicon Náchod, Czech Republic
- Template:Flagicon Pakruojis, Lithuania
- Template:Flagicon Radviliškis, Lithuania
- Template:Flagicon Rypin, Poland
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Notable people
- Karl Constantin Kraukling, (1792–1873), Director of the Royal History Museum, Dresden.[23]
- Arthur Böttcher, (1831 – 1889), pathologist and anatomist.
- Lazar Nisselovich, (1858–1914), member of the 3rd Russian Duma.
- Abraham Isaac Kook, (1865–1935), Bauska rabbi 1894-1904.
- Vilis Olavs, (1867–1917), active during Latvian National Awakening.
- Vilis Plūdons, (1874–1940), poet.
- Krišjānis Berķis, (1884–1942), general, Minister of War.
- Artuss Kaimiņš, (born 1980), actor, politician.
- Kristīne Nevarauska, (born 1981), actress.
- Dainis Kazakevičs, (born 1981), professional football manager.
- Dace Lina, (born 1981), marathon runner.
- Dace Ruskule, (born 1981), discus thrower.
- Ivars Timermanis, (born 1982), basketball player.
- Dainis Upelnieks, (born 1982), sport shooter.
- Artūrs Toms Plešs, (born 1992), politician
- Mārtiņš Podžus and Jānis Podžus, (born 1994), tennis players.
- Elchonon Wasserman (born 1875), rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
- Inese Tarvida, (born 1998), taekwondo athlete
Climate
Bauska has a humid continental climate (Köppen Dfb). Script error: No such module "weather box".
External links
References
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- ^ L Dribins, A Guttmanis, and M Vestermanis, "Latvia's Jewish Community: History, Tragedy, Survival", Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia, ca. 2001.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Jewish Community of Bauska". The Museum of the Jewish People at Beit Hatfutsot. Archived from the original on 2018-06-13. Retrieved 2018-06-13.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The Murder of the Jews in Latvia: 1941-1945. Bernhard Press. 2000. ISBN 9780810117297.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jews in Bauska".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Council of Jewish Communities of Latvia". Jewish Community of Latvia. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sculpture | Girts Burvis". GirtsBurvisSculpture. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Umanovska, Gita (2017-10-12). "Opening of the Memorial in Bauska". Jewish Community of Latvia. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bauska Castle and Museum". Archived from the original on 2009-01-24. Retrieved 2015-10-14.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Bauska Museum".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Freedom monument".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Panoramio.com". Archived from the original on 2016-10-24. Retrieved 2017-12-03.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Photos".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Stone of Peter the Great".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sadraudzība". bauska.lv (in latviešu). Bauska. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Karl Constantin Kraukling".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Klimatisko normu dati". Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Centre. Archived from the original on January 13, 2023. Retrieved March 24, 2023.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."World Meteorological Organization Climate Normals for 1991-2020". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
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