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'''Padure Manor''' ({{langx|lv|Padures muižas pils}}) is a manor house built in empire style located about 200 metres from a large pond formed by the waters of the Venta river, in Padure Parish, Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia. Used as a war hospital during the German occupation in the Second World War, it housed the Padure parish library until 2005.
==History== The manor house was erected in the late 1830s to the early 1840s.<ref name=LPMA>{{cite web|last=LATVIJAS PIĻU UN MUIŽU ASOCIĀCIJA|title=Historical information|url=http://padure-en.pilis.lv/Home/historical-information|publisher=LATVIJAS PIĻU UN MUIŽU ASOCIĀCIJA|access-date=17 August 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818064531/http://padure-en.pilis.lv/Home/historical-information|archive-date=18 August 2012}}</ref> The first owner was the Scottish merchant John Louis Balfour who acquired the property from the von Stempel family, who owned the Padure estate and Turkalne Manor.<ref name=LPMA/> His eldest son, Alfon Balfour, managed the estate until the beginning of the 1920s.<ref name=LPMA/> After the Latvian Agrarian Reform was instituted, from 1922 the manor was managed by the government of Latvia.<ref>[http://www.paduremanor.com/ Padure manor] Website</ref>
From 1 April 1923, a school was opened.<ref name=LPMA/> During the German occupation the manor served as a war hospital and after 1945, the buildings of the estate began to be used as an agricultural experimental station.<ref name=LPMA/> Until 2005, the manor housed the Padure parish library.<ref name=LPMA/>
==See also== * List of palaces and manor houses in Latvia
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{{Castles in Latvia}}
Category:Manor houses in Courland Category:Kuldīga Municipality
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