Dundaga

Dundaga lies in northern Courland, where a castle built by the Archbishopric of Riga in the late thirteenth century became the centre of the surrounding lands. Its stone walls recall the period when ecclesiastical rulers and military orders divided authority over the Baltic coast. From the sixteenth century the castle was the centre of a great private estate held by the Osten-Sacken family, a Baltic German noble house. Dundaga remained closely tied to the fortunes of its landlords and their extensive Courland property throughout the early modern period.