RÄ“zekne

Rezekne ( German: Rositten ) is a town in the countryside Latgale ( lett: Latgale ), to the east of Latvia. Rezekne is located at the junction of the railway line Moscow - Riga, Saint Petersburg - Warsaw and is one of the nine towns of Latvia Republic.

History

In Rezekne stood a castle from the 9th century Latgale. Before the arrival of the Crusaders the place belonged to Jersika and was mentioned in the Chronicle of Novgorod as " Lotigolu ". From 1209 the local prince Visvaldis ruled as a vassal of Bishop Albert. As of 1224, the area was quite to the Bishop of Riga, there was the Livonian Order in 1239. 1285 then a stone castle was built, which is called by the name Rositten in documents. In the monastic state of the city was the center of the Bailiwick Rositten. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the area was ravaged by the armies of Novgorod and Pleskaus. From 1558 the Bailiwick was pledged to Poland - Lithuania, to then become part of the Duchy of Livonia in 1582. Town and castle were taken several times by foreign armies: 1577-1579 and 1654-1656 of the Russian Tsar, 1601, 1625-1626 and 1656-1660 by the Swedes. From 1660 until the partition of Poland in 1772 the town belonged to the province of Livonia, then to the Russian Empire. In the 19th century, Rezekne district town in the province of Vitebsk. With the construction of railways St. Petersburg - Warsaw and Moscow - Riga, the city became a transportation hub and industrial center. The population grew until 1914 to 23,000 inhabitants. In the 1897 census, 54 % of the population of Rezekne Jews.

The population was 1920 only 5,000 inhabitants. 1939 lived 13,300 residents in the city. 1940 marched the Red Army and the Wehrmacht in 1941. In the battles end of July 1944, a large part of the city was destroyed.

After the war, Rezekne was built with a focus on industrial development again. The following influx of Russians and other ethnic groups from the Soviet Union meant that today they make up the majority in the city.

Rezekne today

  • The city is the cultural center next to Daugavpils Latgale. Since 1993, the university consists of Rezekne.
  • In the " Latgale Street " some historic buildings have been preserved, for example, built 1882, " Ērgļi pharmacy".
  • The other one in the city of Leon's statue Latgale Mara Tomašickis is dedicated to the Latvian independence. During the time of the Soviet Union destroyed, it was rebuilt in 1992.

Prominent sons and daughters of the town

  • Iveta Apkalna (* 1976), organist
  • Vladimirs Arsentjevs (* 1951), graphic designer, creator of the emblem of the Olympic Summer Games in Moscow in 1980
  • Friedrich Ermler (1898-1967), actor and director
  • Kristine Opolais (* 1979), soprano
  • Ivan Sawoloko (1897-1984), ethnographer, writer, teacher,
  • Yuri Tynjanow (1894-1943), writer and literary critic
  • Ilze Viņķele (* 1971), politician

The city name in other languages

  • Latvian 1893-1917: Riejitsa
  • Latgalian: Řezné,
  • Russian: Резекне until 1893 Розиттен ( Rezekne ), 1893-1917: Режица ( Reschiza )
  • Belarusian: Рэзэкнэ until 1917 and from 1944 to 1945: Рэжыца
  • Estonian: Räisaku,
  • Polish: Rzeżyca
  • Lithuanian: Rezekne

Twin Cities

  • Arendal, Norway
  • Częstochowa, Poland
  • Dmitrov, Russia
  • Lianosowo ( Rajon / Region of northeastern prefecture of Moscow), Russia
  • Suwałki, Poland
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