Legend
In the name of love
The owners of Kolcene (now Bīriņi) manor, Aleksandar and Eleonora von Pistolkors...
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Legends and stories
Facts are not enough for us, we need to find causes, reasons, and emotions in everything. Thus, by enriching events with our emotions, stories grow into legends, where this is made up, but this is pure fact…
Legend
Love Oak and Bells
When the lord's son, Erik, fell in love with his sister's maid, they chose an oak tree planted by their ancestors as their meeting place...
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Legend
How Kolcene became Bīriņi
Around 1577, Ivan the Terrible's troops had captured many lands and castles in the Riga diocese and elsewhere in Latvia...
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Legend
Haunted house
Near the manor building, you can reach the family tomb along a long alley...
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Legend
Lake digging
Around 1790, a small river flowed from the large Lauga swamp through a low and wet meadow past the old Kolcene manor house, which was built on a hill...
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Legend
Commission House
Each building has its own historical story, but the most colorful one at Bīriņi Manor belongs to a small two-story building on the banks of Lake Dzirnezers, which was originally built...
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Legend
Theft at Count Mellin's
Author - A. Koško.
In Vidzeme province, a major theft had occurred at the estate of the local magnate Count Mellins...
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