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Ilūkstes jezuītu klosteris. Būvvēsture un arhitektūra

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Dirveiks I.

Makslas Vesture un Teorija

2022

vol. 26

6-20

Today Ilūkste resembles a rather remote town for many. It was mentioned as a small village in the mid-16th century. Gradual development began here after the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia was founded. Old Believers, Lutherans and Catholics built their churches there. Support for Jesuits by the landowning Zyberg family gradually made Ilūkste one of the Duchy’s main Catholic centres. St. Ursula’s Catholic Church built in the mid-18th century was the largest Catholic Church in the Duchy; together with the college complex it equalled the Aglona religious and educational centre on the right bank of the River Daugava. The imposing church vanished from the Ilūkste landscape in the historical turmoil of the 20th century. The church was blown up during the First World War and its stone remains were fully removed as late as 1956. After the Second World War, the former monastery building increasingly faded into oblivion. Although the history of Ilūkste Jesuit college and St. Ursula’s Church has been much studied already, providing a good, professional theoretical basis, research of former monastery buildings was not carried out before autumn 2021. Thus the opportunity arose to gather valuable new information about this important object in Latvia’s cultural history. Ilūkste Jesuit monastery (college) building and the so-called “side building” are parts of the largest Jesuit residence in the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. The residence once included St. Ursula’s Church, the nearby monastery and (school?) building and to the south, several outbuildings and a garden (currently with only approximately known boundaries). Even if both stone buildings of Ilūkste monastery have suffered much during wars and were rebuilt in the second half of the 20th century, their initial spatial structure and much of original substance has survived. Considering the significance of this place in Latvia’s cultural history and the unique building typology, the former Ilūkste Jesuit college ensemble is certainly an outstanding monument of architecture and history whose true values have yet to be revealed.

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Ilūkstes jezuītu klosteris. Būvvēsture un arhitektūra