Šautuve (shooting gallery) Infrastructure

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 Ogres novads, Tomes pagasts, Latvija
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Supposedly - an open-air shooting range built by the German army of the First World War for shooting practice. To be found in the largest forest massif between Negus, the former Kurland Denkmal at the so-called Prince Leopold Street (Prinz – Leopold Straße). The object may be difficult to find for the uninitiated, so it is recommended to use geographic coordinates for the search. The vicinity of the shooting range is covered with young pine trees, wolves live in the vicinity (you can find their feces). LIDAR maps and nature show a continuous line of trenches 1.5 km long southeast of the shooting range, while in the northwest a line of short (about 50 m long) and interrupted trenches stretches all the way to the Ķegum HPP.

The object appears in nature as an approximately 300 m long, straight, northeast-southwest oriented "passage", surrounded on both sides by ramparts up to 2 m high, overgrown with lichens and mosses. The highest rampart is at the end of the shooting range (3-4 m). The shooting range is surrounded by rectangular pits of the same size. On a World War I-era map, this location is labeled "Schießst.". Presumably, it served as a shooting training ground ("Schießstand" in German - shooting range). In the direction to Tomi (up to Tomei) two more shooting locations are marked on the mentioned map. Tomei is found and seen in nature closest to nature.

 
Used sources and references:

1. Historical, LIDAR and other maps: https://vesture.dodies.lv/#m=15/56.71776/24.69606&l=O/KDW

2. Map “1914 – 19 Karte des Weslichen Russlands”

 

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