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The bas relief at the side entrance of Villa Genowefa, Švėkšna, Lithuania. In 1880 the villa was built by count Adam Alfred Broël-Plater next to the old Švėkšna Manor house, and it was named after his wife – Genowefa. The bas reliefs of the knight’s helmet on both sides of the entrance are placed here, most likely, to show knightly roots of Broël-Plater or Plater family, because it traces its origins from the 12th century and members of this family were the Knights of the Livonian Order which was an autonomous branch of the Teutonic Order. Probably, for that very reason St Elizabeth's church in Marburg, Germany, built by the Teutonic knights in the 13th century, was chosen by Plater family, as a prototype of Švėkšna Church, abundantly funded by Platers and constructed according to the architect K. E. Strandmann design nearby the villa in 1905
Author: Algirdas Stočkus
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Photo size: 10.2 Mpixels (29.1 MB uncompressed) - 2762x3682 pixels (9.2x12.3 in / 23.4x31.2 cm at 300 ppi)