LEGENDS AND STORIES

The facts are not enough, we are looking for reasons, purposes, and feelings. Thus, the facts turn into legends, enhanced by our imagination, still contain some truth…

 

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IN THE NAME OF LOVE

The landlords of Kolzen (now Birini) Manor Alexander and Elionora von Pistohlkors…

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OAK OF LOVE AND WEDDING BELLS

When the Landlord’s son Eric fell in love with a maid from the Manor, they had been meeting each other secretly at the Oak of Love, planted by his ancestors.

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FROM KOLZEN TO BIRINI

Around 1577 the tsarist troops of Ivan the Terrible (IV) had captured numerous castles in Riga and Latvia...

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HAUNTED HOUSE

The long Mourning Alley leads from the Castle to the Family Crypt on the beautiful Priezkalna Park full of historic sites…

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DIGGING THE LAKE

Around 1790, there was a small stream from the Lauga Marsh through the Birini Manor…

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COMMITTEE MEETING HOUSE

All buildings in Birini Manor have their history, the one of the small two-storey building on the coast of the Watermill Lake is the most colourful…

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