Jūrkalne

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Jūrkalne
Village
Jurkalne, piemineklis karu un revoluciju upuriem 2000-07-09 - panoramio.jpg
Monument to the victims of wars and revolutions in Jūrkalne
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Jūrkalne
Location in Latvia
Coordinates: 57°00′22″N21°23′13″E / 57.00611°N 21.38694°E / 57.00611; 21.38694
CountryLatvia
Municipality Ventspils
Parish Jūrkalne
Elevation
14 m (46 ft)
Population
 (2015)
  Total
238
Time zone UTC+2 (Eastern European Time)
  Summer (DST) UTC+3 (Eastern European Summer Time)
Website www.jurkalne.lv

Jūrkalne is a village in Latvia. It is the centre of a parish of the same name within Ventspils Municipality on the Baltic coast. Its former German name was Feliksberg (Felixberg), but its former Latvian name was Medeņciems (Meddenzeem). [1]

Jūrkalne was the birthplace of Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, the Jewish ethnologist and musicologist.

57°00′22″N21°23′13″E / 57.00611°N 21.38694°E / 57.00611; 21.38694

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References

  1. Das Inland. Eine Wochenschrift für Liv-, Esth- und Curländische Nr. 44, (15. August, 1844) S. 522