Āgenskalns Market is a neighbourhood food market on Riga’s left bank, centred on a red-brick hall designed by Reinhold Georg Schmaeling. Established at this site in 1898, it reopened its restored pavilion in 2022 with food sellers, cafés and community activities.
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A market can leave traces even after it moves. In Riga’s Āgenskalns neighbourhood, Tirgus iela—Market Street—recalls an earlier trading place near the Sētas krogs inn. Today the market’s red-brick pavilion stands at Nometņu iela 64, on the other side of the Daugava from the old city centre. Its history is a story of a neighbourhood finding new ways to meet around food.
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Quick facts
- The food market moved to its present site in 1898, before the present pavilion was built.
- Reinhold Georg Schmaeling designed the red-brick hall; construction was interrupted by the First World War.
- During restoration, two old basement cooling chambers with peat insulation were discovered.
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