Battle at Kaulači half-manor in March 1945
In 1945, there was a Red Army observation post near Kaulači half-manor. Eyewitnesses recalled that fighting broke out in March 1945. This is not the first time that World War II-era graves have been found in this field.
In 2021, 23 ashes of German soldiers were exhumed in Remte Parish, Brocēni District, near the house of Kaulači. There used to be a manor of the same name and in 1945 there was a Red Army observatory.
Eyewitnesses remember that the battles began in March 1945. Mines fell, machine guns rattled, cannons fired, and civilians were located between two front lines near Pilsbliden. After the battles, the nearest eight houses, including the Kaulači manor, burned like pink.
After the war, dead German soldiers and Latvian legionnaires have been left in the field. The Red Army has collected its fallen. Every owner has used the dead people as if he has been taught, because the Soviet government has said that the fallen should be buried. If not, the neighborhood is experiencing various diseases.
This is not the first time that World War II burials have been found in this area. During the excavation work, it was revealed that four rifles had been thrown under the soldiers, a helmet, and one of the people who had fallen by the side had a lid of a soldier's pot with a partially legible engraving. A number of German coins, a gas mask and some leftovers from clothing were also brought to the surface.
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Monument to the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Red Army
The monument to the soldiers of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps of the Red Army is located at the ruins of the Kaulači half-manor farmhouse about 100 metres south-west of the road.
On 17 March 1945, the last Red Army offensive attempt in Courland began. The task of the 7th Estonian Rifle Division of the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps was to reach the Riga-Liepaja railway line west of Blidene station and to secure the attack of the 3rd Guards Mechanised Corps in the direction of Gaiki. By the evening of 17 March, the 354th Rifle Regiment reached the railway south of Kaulači half-manor through the forest and continued its attacks north-westwards, reaching the Pikuliai houses. In the Kaulači semi-mansion and further to the north-east were the German Burg-Stellung positions, defended by individual units of the 329th Infantry Division. Throughout the day of 18 March, attacks by the 354th Rifle Regiment continued unsuccessfully.
On the evening of 18 March the 354th Rifle Regiment was relieved by the 27th Rifle Regiment. The advance unit of the 7th Mechanised Brigade of the 3rd Guards Mechanised Corps, the 1st Motorised Battalion, with one tank company, was also to be used for the attack. By the evening of 19 March, in a concentrated attack, the Soviets had captured the Kaulači half-manor, seizing a section of the German-built defensive line on the dominant high ground.
Until the end of March 1945, attacks by the 8th Estonian Rifle Corps and the 3rd Mechanised Corps in the directions of Vikstraute and Remte continued, but without success.
During the fighting, the Kaulači half-manor housed various levels of headquarters and a memorial stone was unveiled on the site in May 1975.
