Vecpiebalga

Vecpiebalga ( German: Alt- Pebalg ) is a town in north-eastern Latvia and the center of the eponymous administrative unit ( Latvian: Vecpiebalgas novads ).

History

In the 14th century the Archbishop of Riga could create a castle that was destroyed for the first time during the Livonian War and of which only ruins remain from the 18th century.

The village was built around the Good Old - Pebalg, about 3 kilometers away between two lakes from the castle.

A church existed since 1345th Today's Secondary School was founded in 1860, during the revolution of 1905 destroyed and rebuilt in the 1930s again.

In the municipality the adapted as a museum house is Kalna Kaibēni the brothers Matīss and Reinis Kaudzīte that the novel Mērnieku laiki pitched in 1879 a new chapter in the Latvian literary history. The novel is set mostly in Vecpiebalga. Under the title " land surveyor times," he appeared in 2012, translated into German by Valdis Bisenieks, publishing Kaspars Kļaviņš in Salzburg, ISBN 978-3-9503342-0-3.

Vecpiebalgas novads

2009, the municipalities Dzērbene, Inesi, Kaive, Taurenes and Vecpiebalga merged to form a county. ( See also: Administrative divisions of Latvia ). 2010, reported 4781 inhabitants.

Sister City

• Biirgel (Thuringia ) ( Germany ) since 2006