Ikskile Meliatoru Street 8 near pre-school educational institution "Urdaviņa" from the 2011 15th August Ogre running the Red Cross Ikšķile department. Branch is a brand new, but reached its audience. Basement rooms daily drop in up to 20 people.
Ikšķile Red Cross participates in different projects and looking for partners around the world.
Address:
8 Melioratoru Street, Ikskile, LV-5052, Latvia
City Map
Area: 2,2km2 (town),
129,89km2 (rural territory)
Population- 9125( 2010)
Distance to Riga 28km
Railroad station, along the Riga- Krustpils line, the distance to the Ikšķile station is 28 km.
Ikšķile is one of the oldest populated places. From the 9th century there was a liv's village near the river Daugava.
· The word Ikšķile (or the german Üxküll, Uexküll) becomes from the meaning of (Finno-ugrian) Livonian word ükskül (yksikylä in Finnish). Ükskül (üks = one, kül = village) means simply just village number one, one village or The Village.
· Ikšķile has been one of the first German crusaders' support points in the Baltics. In 1185 the first stone building in the Latvia was built here. It was the chapel of the church of the Livonian Bishop's castle. The castle was built near the church in 1186 under the canon Meinard's control. When Meinard was appointed the first Bishop of Livonia it became the center of Christianitypropagation in Latvia. During the later wars the castle and the church were destroyed and after the Riga hydroelectric power station reservoir rising, the conserved ruins of the church were left standing on the island in the middle of the river Daugava.
