No. 5 Atmodas (Awakening) Street

№ 5 Atmodas Street around 1935

№ 5 Atmodas Street in 2014

The building at № 5 Atmodas Street was built at the beginning of the 19th century, when a plot of land was separated from the land on which Dome pub (№ 7 Atmodas Street) was allocated, which was not initially assigned a mortgage number because it was not under town jurisdiction. This real estate was called Amalienburg or Amalie Castle, and its legal status was identical to that of hereditary manor.

In 1814, the landowner of Amalienburg was District Councilor (Landrat) and writer Ulrich Heinrich Gustav von Schlippenbach, but in 1821 the Supreme Court chief officer, State Councilor and District Councilor (Landrat) Karl Alexander von Korff was mentioned as the owner.

Amalienburg belonged to the Korffs until 1879, when it was bought at auction for 4,000 Rubles by the District Marshal of landlord of Apriķu and Padure Manors, Baron Arthur von der Osten-Sacken (his mother was born von Korff). After Arthur's death in 1912, Amalienburg was inherited by Ernst von der Osten-Sacken, from him Max von der Osten-Sacken in 1918, and from him his property at № 5 Atmodas Street on 16 August 1924 was bought by the Bank of Latvia for 18,000 Lats. The house was first renovated, therefore the Aizpute branch of the Bank of Latvia started operating in 5 rooms of this building only from 1925. The Aizpute District Tax Inspectorate also occupied 3 premises in the bank building.

The plot of land owned by Amalienburg and thus also by the Bank of Latvia on the Atmodas Street side was relatively small. It consisted of a small undeveloped area in front of the building's wing. The rest of the land up to the street was the property of the town, which has been used by merchants on market days of the week since ancient times. In the 1920s, it had become a "Small Market", also known as the fish market, which, of course, could not satisfy the bank, so in August 1925 the Aizpute Branch of the Bank of Latvia asked to "To find a possibility for the small market, which is held on the square near the house now occupied by the Bank of Latvia and to which trading in manufactured goods, small items, fish and bread was allowed on normal market days, to be moved to another place.”

After receiving this request, the municipality built a sidewalk across the square used for the market from the bank building to the street. (See also - Aizpute Marketplace)

On May 6, 1935, the Town Council unanimously decided to sell the square between the street and the bank's real estate to the bank's branch for 500 Lats.

Nowadays - a residential house, private property.

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