Site of former World War I barracks Military town

Located in a forest 0.6 – 0.7 km south of the village of Latgale. The best idea of the territory can be obtained if it is previously studied on LIDAR maps, because in nature the positions of trenches and other earth surface formations dug by people a century ago can go unnoticed by the uninitiated. Judging by the remains of a brick kiln and other signs visible in the excavations (carried out by someone else), there were barracks of the German army here. Next to the barracks along the Great Kurfirst Dam from the modern Lāčplēsis station along Birzgali and further to the supply of the Daugava front line, a narrow-gauge railway was built. 0.5 km east of the barracks was the so-called Kurland or Mātīte Monument (Kurland Denkmal), but on the left bank of the Daugava, within a radius of 1.3 km around the barracks, three reinforced concrete fire points were built (surviving to this day, but the remains of one are under water and appear only when the water level of the HPP is reduced), while 0.6 km west of them was a shooting range, of which nothing has survived in nature. Around the shooting range, pits are visible in nature – the remains of former buildings and fortifications. About 100–200 m southeast of the former barracks site, three to 30 m long, rectangular trenches (and smaller ones) are clearly visible in nature, which may have been warehouses.