Mazjumprava
Mazjumprava is a former manor site in Riga, Latvia, where parkland now surrounds the ruins of a neoclassical house. Its history reaches back to 1259, when Cistercian nuns acquired the land from Archbishop Albert.
Jesuits later controlled the estate before Riga reclaimed it in 1636, after centuries of changing ownership and fortunes. In 1797, more than 3,000 people lived across its lands, including over 1,000 serfs, while parts of the estate eventually became Olaine and Dreilini. The painter Johans Heinrihs Baumanis lived here in the nineteenth century, and the house later served as a dispensary for pilots inside a post-war military area.
The site also carries the memory of Jungfernhof, a Holocaust concentration camp where deported Jews were imprisoned and many were killed. Today, ruins and traces of the former park remain, including a landscape once shown on eighteenth-century maps with radial garden paths.
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