13th century. The Krimulda Order’s castle was built during the reign of Archbishop Albert II (completed in 1255); until 1566 it belonged to the Riga Domkapitulus.
16th century. After 1566 Polish troops occupied the Krimulda region and castle.
17th century. 1601. Swedes won the castle back and abandoned it in the autumn of the same year, after having destroyed the castle and partially the small town around it, so the Poles would have no place to settle in.
1621. Again Krimulda is under the Swedish rule of King Gustav II Adolph.
1625. Krimulda is donated to the Swedish state counsellor, Admiral Gabriel Gabrielson, Count of Oxershern.
18th – 19th centuries. In 1726 the Count of Oxershern pledged Krimulda to captain Helmersen, whose family owned it until 1817.
1817. Prince Johann Liewen acquires Krimulda for 60 875 silver roubles and owns the mansion until 1921.
In 1853 Paul Liewen was the first Swiss nobleman in Vidzeme to set up a park, with numerous promenades and stairs made of wood, on the right bank of the river Gauja. One of the stairs was made of 380 steps, rising from Vikmeste dell, and the other one of 325 steps leading from the castle park to the ferry across the Gauja.
1854. Governor-general of Vidzeme, Alexander Suvorov, spent his summer vacation in Krimulda castle, and the former Vimeste hillfort with a picturesque view onto the Gauja valley was called the Suvorov Mount.
Czar Alexander II himself heard about the beautiful park of von Liewen and during his visit to Vidzeme on 11th and 12th of July 1862, together with his spouse and the retinue paid, a visit to Krimulda.
In honour of that visit a wooden bridge with a serpentine road was built across the Gauja, which is planned to be restored by Sigulda’s Council for the city’s 800th anniversary in the year 2007. | 
