Padure Manor

Padure Manor (Latvian: Padures muižas pils) is a manor house built in empire style located about 200 metres from a large pond formed by the waters of the Venta river, in Padure Parish, Kuldīga Municipality, Latvia.

[1] The first owner was the Scottish merchant John Louis Balfour who acquired the property from the von Stempel family, who owned the Padure estate and Turkalne Manor.

[1] His eldest son, Alfon Balfour, managed the estate until the beginning of the 1920s.

[1] After the Latvian Agrarian Reform was instituted, from 1922 the manor was managed by the government of Latvia.

[1] During the German occupation the manor served as a war hospital and after 1945, the buildings of the estate began to be used as an agricultural experimental station.