Ozolnieki Municipality

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Ozolnieki Municipality
Ozolnieku novads
Municipality
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Coat of arms
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CountryFlag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
Formed2003
Dissolved2021
Centre Ozolnieki
Government
 • Council ChairAndris Ozoliņš (Latvian Association of Regions)
Area
[1]
 • Total286.17 km2 (110.49 sq mi)
 • Land273.54 km2 (105.61 sq mi)
 • Water12.63 km2 (4.88 sq mi)
Population
 (2021) [2]
 • Total9,948
 • Density35/km2 (90/sq mi)
Website www.ozolnieki.lv

Ozolnieki Municipality (Latvian : Ozolnieku novads) is a former municipality in Semigallia, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2003 by merging Ozolnieki Parish and Cena Parish; the administrative centre was Ozolnieki. In 2009 it absorbed Sidrabene parish (in 2011 renamed to Salgale parish) of the former Jelgava District. The population in 2020 was 10,019. [3]

Contents

On 1 July 2021, Ozolnieki Municipality was merged into Jelgava Municipality. [4]

Geography

The municipality was located in the north of Zemgale Plain. It shared borders with Olaine Municipality, Ķekava Municipality, Bauska Municipality, Iecava Municipality, Jelgava Municipality and the city of Jelgava. The centre of Ozolnieki Municipality - the town of Ozolnieki - was located 6 kilometers from Jelgava and 36 kilometers from Riga. Total area - 286.1 km2. [5]

Villages

Ozolnieki, Iecēni, Brankas, Glūdas, Raubēni, Āne, Tetele, Cenas, Dalbe, Emburga, Garoza, Jaunpēternieki,Renceles.

Rivers

The main rivers in territory of municipality were Lielupe, Iecava and Misa. From the smaller rivers, streams and canals the most important were: Cena, Garoze, Mazais Ragvēzis, Mizupīte, Renģele, Sidrabenīte, Sodzeris, Podzīte, Velnagrāvis and Zaķstrauts.

Lakes/ Ponds

There were a number of artificial lakes in ex-claypits - Ozolnieku ezers near Ozolnieki, Džammu dīķis, Lieģu dīķis near Brankas, Senču dīķis, Ānes dīķis and Jāņa dīķis near Āne, Viesturu dīķis near Tetele, Libertu dīķis in Raubēni and Akmenscūciņu karjers near Emburga.

Swamps

A number of small swamps were located in the territory of municipality: Briežu purvs, Būdukalna tīrelis, Čauku purvs, Danču purvs, Ķempu purvs, Lāču purvs, Pēternieku purvs, Sērenu purvs and Vīlantu purvs.

History

The origin of the name Ozolnieki most likely comes from Ozolmuiža (in German: Eckhofen or Paulsgnade), the manor house which was located within the territory of the modern Ozolnieki Municipality. [6] In the age of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia (1562–1791), Ozolmuiža belonged to its dukes. Amongst its owners was the most renowned of the duchy's Dukes - Jacob Kettler, who kept an aviary of hunting gyrfalcons on the manor farm (Jacob's son, Frederick Casimir Kettler, later expanded the aviary). [6] After the Courland was annexed by the Russian empire, Ozolmuiža manor passed to the tsars of Russia. Tsar Paul I allotted it to the governor of Courland, Karl Wilhelm Driesen. Subsequent manor owners included a number of different families, the last of which were the von der Reckes (until the formation of the Republic of Latvia)

During the Latvian War of Independence (1919–1920), Ozolnieki municipality was the scene of several battles against the Bermontians. In 1937, a monument was unveiled in memory of the Latvian soldiers killed in action there.

After the founding of the Republic of Latvia (1918–1920), and passage of the act regarding the Reform of agricultural lands, all manors were divided and distributed to Latvian farmers. All manor houses itself had been destroyed in the fighting of World War I and War of Independence. Their building materials, mainly stones and bricks, were used to build new farmsteads. [6] In 1936 there were 401 new farms, down from a peak of 481. Local industry included brick-making, textiles, clay mining, leather tanning, a sawmill, and other light industry. [6]

Throughout the two decades of Latvian independence, there was an active social and culture life—two elementary schools, a choir, a dance collective, an amateur theatre, a local unit of the Aizsargi Home Guard, and others societies.

The Soviet occupations (first in 1940 and second 1944-1991) did not spare Ozolnieki. In the mass deportations of 1949, the 42,000 Latvians deported on March 25, 1949, to Siberia included 18 inhabitants of the municipality. [6] [7] After those deportations, the USSR began to liquidate individual farms, forcing the formation of collective farms or kolkhozes. The kolhozes were given Soviet-inspired names such as “Sirpis un āmurs” (Sickle and Hammer), “Staļina ērglis″ ( Stalin's eagle) and “Mičurina kolhozs” (Michurin's kolkhoz)—whose name includes a play on the diminutive of a Latvian word regarding bodily functions.

Several administrative reforms took place in Ozolnieki municipality after World War II: in 1945, the Soviets divided the municipality into three villages—Ozolnieki, Cena and Dalbe; in 1954 Ozolnieki village was liquidated and incorporated into Valgunde village, while Cena village was expanded, incorporating Tetele and Āne. Ozolnieki village was later incorporated in Cena village, but in 1979 was re-established as an urban village with autonomous administration (Latvian: pilsētciemats). After Latvia restored independence (1991), Ozolnieki and Cena retained their territories and were formed into parishes: Ozolnieki parish (Latvian: Ozolnieku pagasts) and Cena parish (Latvian: Cenu pagasts). In 2003 both parishes merged again into Ozolnieki municipality (Latvian: Ozolnieku novads) with its governmental centre in Ozolnieki. In 2009, in conjunction with the completion of the Administrative territorial reforms of Latvia, Ozolnieki municipality absorbed Sidrabene parish (since 2011 - Salgale parish).

Inhabitants

In July 2020 the population of the municipality were 10,726 where 72% were Latvians, 17% Russians, 3% Belarusians, 2% Lithuanians, 2% Ukrainians, 1% Poles and 3% others. [8]

Education, culture and sport

There were three kindergartens, secondary school, elementary school, music school, the affiliates of the Baltic International Academy and The Higher School of Psychology located in the municipality. The Latvian Rural Advisory and Training Centre is located in Ozolnieki.

There were four libraries and two culture centres in the municipality.

In the centre of the former municipality. Ozolnieki, is a sports centre, ice hall and cable system for wakeboarding on Ozolnieki Lake. There are two volleyball teams (one plays in amateur league, other - VK Ozolnieki/Poliurs - in the Baltic Schenker league), motorcycle club, and a tug of war club. The ice hockey team HK Ozolnieki/Monarhs was also based in Ozolnieki.

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