Author: unknown
Date: around 1709
Material: bronze
Technique: casting
Dimensions, mm:
The bronze plaque shows the highest water level during the great floods, which was reached on April 13, 1709. The flooding of the river Daugava flooded not only the streets but also the ground floors of the houses. According to eyewitnesses, the church chairs floated like ships in Riga Cathedral as well as other churches of the city.
However, these are not the only floods in which the Cathedral suffered, for example, after the spring flood of 1744, special materials were brought to fill the washed-out graves and services were resumed only in June. Until the embankment of river Daugava was raised, floods in Riga happened quite often.