Lielindrix

The oldest mention of Indritz dates back to 1471. According to the annals, a discussion of a trade dispute between the Dinaburg Komtur, Rezekne Vogt and the Polotsk governor took place in Indritz.

In 1531, the master of the order Hermanis von Brigenius sold Indrica to the Plater family, from which Jan Andrzej Henryk Broel-Plater, 1627–1696, converted to Catholicism in 1695 and turned the local Protestant church into Catholic ^[2] . The Indrica Castle was inhabited until the beginning of the 18th century, when Jan Ludwig Plater bought the Kraslava estate in 1729 and built a magnificent palace there. The Indrika estate was abandoned, but Indriza belonged to his family until the twentieth century. The abandoned castle began to collapse, and by the twentieth century nothing remained above the ground.

Indric Castle

The castle was located on the right bank of the Daugava, on the right bank of the Stirna River, 300 above its confluence with the Daugava (about 0.5 km south of Lielindritsa).

The estate was located on a 0.5 hectare hill. The height above the current level of the Daugava is 8 meters. During excavations, it was established that the estate was built in two periods. In the 15th century, a wooden structure was built in the northern part of the hill. It was surrounded by a wooden picket fence. From the 30s of the XVI century to the beginning of the XVIII century, construction went on the southern part of the hill. From the first construction period, the stone foundation of the residential building remained the remains (in the ground) of a wooden fence.

The stone house was built in the second period. It was originally deepened to 3 meters and expanded to 10 meters in the western part. The excavated soil was used to expand the territory of the hill. Around the buildings a new wooden fence was erected. The stone residential building was built of boulders with a wall thickness of 1.2 meters. The basement 2 meters deep was bricked. In terms of exterior walls were 18x12 meters. To the northwest corner of the building, opposite the entrance gate, there was a 6x6 meter square tower with rounded corners. Under the tower was a 1.8x3 cellar. In the northeast corner of the building, from the courtyard side, there was an extension with a wall thickness of 1 meter. Here was the entrance to the house. In the northern part of the building was a basement annex, where there was a stove heating the house. The house was built in the southern part of the hill, and in the northern part there were farm buildings and a cellar.

To this day, the basement of the residential building and the foundations of household buildings have been preserved.

• Indrica
• Kraslava