Confluence of Tebra and Durbe rivers

Sakas pagasts, Dienvidkurzemes novads

In written sources, Saka (village) with the name Saccze or Sacese is mentioned as early as 1230 in the documents of the division of the state of Kursa. The settlement was formed near the former Sackenhausen castle. The construction of the castle could have started soon after 1386, when Bishop Otto of Courland gave Saka to Arnold Lindal. There is an opinion that the bishop ordered the castle to be built here to ensure unhindered traffic on the then navigable Tebra and to protect the mouth of the river Saka. In 1522, the castle came into the possession of the Ostenzaken family, who ruled the castle until 1714. During the Second Northern War in 1660, the castle was destroyed and was not rebuilt after that.