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<< Our Photo Pages >> Vadakstes Valdnieku - Modern Stone Circle etc in Latvia

Submitted by Alta-Falisa on Tuesday, 24 February 2015  Page Views: 2075

Modern SitesSite Name: Vadakstes Valdnieku Alternative Name: Ruler of Vadakste
Country: Latvia
NOTE: This site is 9.446 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
Nearest Town: Ežerė
Latitude: 56.400700N  Longitude: 22.355800E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : The Ruler of Vadakste in the middle of the clearing. June 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)
The Ruler of Vadakste, a 4,2 m high monolith, was rolled up in the mid-19th century from the Vadakste River to its present location by order of the manor owner. His name, von Toll, and the numbers "1845-1855" carved on the boulder's surface might indicate either the time it took to roll the boulder from the banks of the Vadakste to the park (10 years...), or the period when the park was created.

The coordinates have been measured on the spot.
Start here (56.403, 22.360) behind the manor by crossing a pedestrian wooden bridge (see photo in the gallery), and follow the well-marked path. At some point, there is a Y, but the wood is not that large and you'll eventually find the Ruler, in the centre of a clearing, no doubt. Reckon with a 10-15 minutes walk, depending on your luck in meeting the Ruler.

NOTE : you cannot visit Ežerė without going to see the very place where the cease-fire ending WWII on the Eastern Front was signed. See comment dated 26.02.2015 hereunder.
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Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : The rear side. Same as previous year, but with a sunnier weather. June 2015. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : General view of the clearing. June 2015. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : The front side, better lit up than a year before. June 2015. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : It must have been a tough job for mere mortals to roll or slide or whatever the Stone from the river up to here. Photo : June 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : Inscription engraved on the Stone. June 2014. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : The Ruler of Vadakste June 2014.

Vadakstes Valdnieku
Vadakstes Valdnieku submitted by Alta-Falisa : The bridge (56.403, 22.360) is the starting point of the 500 m or so walk towards the Ruler of Vadakste -- see text.

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Re: Vadakstes Valdnieku by Alta-Falisa on Thursday, 26 February 2015
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1945, May 8th, at 18.00 local time. Here (56.4027, 22.3693), about 600 m from the Ruler of Vadakste, in a modest Latvian Customs office at the border with Lithuania, on the 8th of May of 1945, at 18.00 local time (CET+1), the Heeresgruppe Kurland (German Army Group Courland), then encircled by the Red Army, signed a cease-fire to be effective on the same day at 23.00, thus ending WWII on the Eastern front. Communication being severely disrupted, the Heeresgruppe Kurland was unaware of the general cease-fire already signed in Rheims by the German Army and the Allied Forces operating on the Western Front, at 02.41 CET on the 7th of May, which was to be effective at 23.01 CET on the 8th of May. The Heeresgruppe Kurland complied with the ultimatum launched by the Red Army to surrender and lay arms on May, 8th -- and, here in Ezere, 23.01 CET was simply converted into 23.00, local time, full stop. In short, WWII ended here first. As 23.01 CET corresponds to 01.01 on the next day in Moscow, the end of WWII is commemorated in Russia on the 9th of May. The Customs office has been disused since then. The bridge leading to Lithuania, destroyed during the war, has never been rebuild ; a new bridge, about 400 m downsteam, replaced it. The former Customs office now houses a small ethnographic museum, open on appointment.
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