Atmodas Street House No. 17

№ 17 Atmodas Street around 1916

№ 17 Atmodas Street in 2014

The plot of land on which the building in the photo was located was separated from the former Red Pub plot on № 19 Atmodas Street in 1843, because Simon Hirschmann, the owner of the pub, sold his newly built house next to the pub for 1,100 Rubles to Benjamin Morgenstern, who sold it to Lasar Levi for 1,600 Rubles in 1867.

In 1874, the property was bought for 1,200 Rubles by the merchant Marcus Königsfest, who sold it in 1876 to Jacob Königsfest for 2,000 Rubles.

In 1923 it was inherited by Isidor Königsfest and in 1932 by the widow Dora Königsfest and Oscher Königsfest.

On October 15, 1936, the house burned down, and in 1937, the Aizpute Council bought the land plot together with the construction materials intended for the construction of the Aizpute town pharmacy for 6,500 Lats. However, the pharmacy was not built.

The Königsfest had a manufactured goods store here, and in 1899 the Town Council allowed Lisette Fahrenhorst to open a beer store at Adolf Königsfest's house.

During the First World War, there was Jānis Stīpnieks shoemaker's workshop, Singer's sewing machine shop, as well as Friedrich Rosenstein's bookstore and newspaper’s Deutsche Zeitung shop.

In the 1920s, there was Judith Friedberg's manufactured goods and haberdashery store, Feive Seel's hairdresser's, in the 1930s there was still Seel's hairdresser's, Lipert's bicycle and sewing machine store, Elsa Rozenthal's manufactured goods store, Leontīne Breschinsky’s tableware and colonial goods and haberdashery shop, Matilde Bērziņa bakery - teahouse.

In the courtyard of the Königsfest House there was the Seel furniture workshop, where the fire broke out. Despite the fact that it was constantly raining during the fire, it was not just Seel's furniture workshop that burned down. The houses of Königsfest and Hirschhorn (№ 15 Atmodas Street) with their shops, workshops and three extensions were completely burnt down. Dr. Berger's dental office also burned down.

In the adjacent Town Council’s yard, the alcohol and vodka storage building under its control, which also housed the apartments of two Council’s employees, burned down.

Today, the address of № 17 Atmodas Street is the property of the municipality - the building of the Aizpute District Committee of the Communist Party, rebuilt for the needs of the hospital in the 1950s, which was actually built on the former plot of № 15 Atmodas Street. On the 1st floor of the building there is the Kurzeme branch of the Riga clinic "EGV" headed by Dr. Voldemārs Lejiņš, but on the 2nd floor there is the Aizpute municipality institution "Health and Social Care Center “.

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