Auce is a town in southern Latvia, in the Dobele Municipality situated near the Lithuanian border. Before the 13th century, the territory of Auce w…Auce is a town in southern Latvia, in the Dobele Municipality situated near the Lithuanian border. Before the 13th century, the territory of Auce was a part of a Semigallian Spārnene county. After the partition of Semigallia in 1254, the territory was granted to the Archbishopric of Riga. Auce is first mentioned in written sources in 1426 as Owcze. In 1616, the Old Auce manor is mentioned for the first time when there was a regional assembly that was held of the Duchy of Courland. In 1667, the first Lutheran church was erected in Auce. From 1768 until the Latvian agrarian reforms in the 1920s, the Old Auce manor was property of the Baltic German von Medem family.
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