Bauska
Bauska is a town in Zemgale, 66 km from Riga and 20 km from the Lithuanian border, at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers where they form the Lielupe river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Daarznieks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Daarznieks, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 9,800 residents
- Description: city in Latvia
- Also known as: “Bauske”, “Bauskė”, and “Bosko”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bauska castle museum and Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit.
Bauska castle museum
Museum
Photo: Lavinsh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bauska Castle is a complex consisting of the ruins of an earlier castle and a later palace on the outskirts of the Latvian city of Bauska. While originally a hill fort, the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights built the castle in the fifteenth century, the palace was added in the sixteenth century, and restoration began in the nineteenth century.
Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit
Church
Photo: ScAvenger, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Church of the Holy Spirit is a Lutheran church and the oldest existing building in Bauska, Latvia. Built between 1591 and 1594 for the needs of the city's Baltic German population.
St. George’s Church, Bauska
Church
Photo: Laima Gūtmane (simka…, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. George's Church is a Latvian Orthodox church in Bauska, Latvia. In 1876 czarist authorities gifted a plot of land to the local Orthodox community which was established in 1856 and by 1881 numbered 95 people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mūsa and Saulaine.
Saulaine
Village
Photo: Ivars Indāns, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saulaine is a village, which is situated 4½ km west of Bauska.
Bauska
- Categories: city under municipality jurisdiction in Latvia and locality
- Location: Bauska Municipality, Zemgale, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
56.4083° or 56° 24′ 30″ northLongitude
24.1877° or 24° 11′ 16″ eastPopulation
9,800Elevation
27 metres (89 feet)United Nations Location Code
LV BAUOpen location code
9G86C55Q+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 343697069OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Bauska” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باساكا”
- Armenian: “Բաուսկա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bauska”
- Bashkir: “Бауска”
- Basque: “Bauska”
- Basque: “Bauske”
- Basque: “Bauskė”
- Belarusian: “Баўск”
- Belarusian: “Баўска”
- Belarusian: “Баўске”
- Bulgarian: “Бауска”
- Catalan: “Bauska”
- Catalan: “Bauske”
- Catalan: “Bauskė”
- Cebuano: “Bauska”
- Chinese: “包斯卡”
- Czech: “Bauska”
- Danish: “Bauska”
- Dutch: “Bauska”
- Dutch: “Bauske”
- Dutch: “Bauskė”
- Esperanto: “Bauska”
- Esperanto: “Bauskas novads”
- Esperanto: “Bauske”
- Esperanto: “Bauskė”
- Estonian: “Bauska”
- Finnish: “Bauska”
- French: “Bauska”
- French: “Bauske”
- French: “Bauskė”
- Georgian: “ბაუსკა”
- German: “Bauska”
- German: “Bauskas novads”
- German: “Bauskė”
- German: “Marienland”
- German: “Bauske” (historical)
- Greek: “Μπαούσκα”
- Greek: “Μπάουσκα”
- Hebrew: “באוסק”
- Hebrew: “באוסקה”
- Hebrew: “בויסק”
- Hungarian: “Bauska”
- Indonesian: “Bauska”
- Italian: “Bauska”
- Italian: “Bauske”
- Italian: “Bauskė”
- Japanese: “バウスカ”
- Kazakh: “Bawska”
- Kazakh: “Бауска”
- Kazakh: “باۋسكا”
- Korean: “바우스카”
- Latvian: “Bauska”
- Latvian: “Bauskas pilsēta”
- Latvian: “Bauske”
- Lithuanian: “Bauskė”
- Moksha: “Бауска”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bauska”
- Norwegian: “Bauska”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bauska”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bauske”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bauskė”
- Panjabi: “ਬੌਸਕਾ”
- Persian: “باوسکا”
- Polish: “Bauska”
- Polish: “Bowsk”
- Russian: “Бауск” (historical)
- Russian: “Бауска”
- Russian: “Бауске”
- Samogitian: “Bauskė”
- Serbian: “Bauska”
- Serbian: “Бауска”
- Spanish: “Bauska”
- Spanish: “Bauske”
- Spanish: “Bauskė”
- Swedish: “Bauska”
- Turkish: “Bauska”
- Ukrainian: “Бауска”
- Upper Sorbian: “Bauska”
- Urdu: “باوسکا”
- Volapük: “Bauska”
- “Bauskė”
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