The barn of the Manor of Nīca
The barn of the Great Manor of Nice is an authentic architectural monument of local importance, located in the center of Nica. The barn was built in 1853 and was included in the Nica Manor complex. The manor complex included several buildings: a residential building, a building for processing milk, a building for the post office and clerk, an ice cellar, a stable with a cart shed, a chicken, pig and cattle shed, a former brewery turned into a blacksmith shop, a former distillery that became a home for the homeless, a , watchman's house, country barn, windmill, potato cellar, horse barn, as well as two barns with cellar. There was also a beautiful pond on the territory of the manor. Originally built, but slightly changed, only the granary of the Great Manor has survived to this day.
The original owners of the manor itself are unknown, they often changed, but it is known that it also belonged to Duke Jekab of Kurzeme for a while. At that time, the Nica manor was one of the largest duke's manors. Later, in 1795, when Kurzeme was annexed to Russia, the Nica manor and the parish became the property of the Russian state; the situation did not change until the establishment of the Latvian state. So, the barn was an economic building of the Duchy of Kurzeme, later of the Crown Manor of the Kurzeme Governorate, and later of all municipalities. Unfortunately, there is little information about the manor itself. At that time, due to the fire, all the documentation about the building was burnt.
The barn of the manor was built from the 18th and 19th centuries. boulders and red bricks characteristic of manors. With its original tiled roof, the barn forms an attractive part of the cultural landscape of the parish center. The barn itself is massive and laconic in shape. It was used as a warehouse. Nowadays, the use of the building in the farm is minimal, but a project for the modernization of the building, changing its function, is currently underway.