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- Title
Smiltene Rectory: authenticity and the issues of its preservation.
- Authors
Zilgalvis, Jānis
- Abstract
The rectories of Lutheran congregations, plebaniums of Catholic priests and homes of Orthodox priests are a significant part of the Latvian cultural heritage where peculiarities, traditions and the cultural and historical developments are tightly interwoven. Together with the church and often with the sacristan's and ringer's house, church tavern, cemetery, parish school, etc., the parsonage formed the environment with landscape, road network, household peculiarities and developments of everyday life characteristic only to it. The architecture of rectories is closely linked with the people - the pastor, his family, servants, etc., whose work, love and faith have represented a unique atmosphere in the parsonage, giving the building a special spirit, which today allows to distinguish them from the other ones. Lutheran pastors, who managed their manors, often were bright personalities of their time - writers, folklore gatherers, promoters and catalysts of development of Latvian journalism, poetry and prose. In many places, the environment typical to the personage is completely destroyed, elsewhere threatened to disappear in the near future. One of the most authentic rectories has been preserved in Ziemeļvidzeme - Smiltene, but its existence is problematic and, that's why, this site needs a particular research to show the public that the site must be definitely escaped from going to rack and ruin.
- Subjects
LATVIA; PRESERVATION of monuments; PARSONAGES; CATHOLIC priests; CULTURAL property; JOURNALISM; THEOLOGY; LATVIJAS Universitate
- Publication
Proceedings of the Latvia University of Agriculture: Landscape Architecture & Art, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 6, p37
- ISSN
2255-8632
- Publication type
Article