Jūrkalne | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Latvia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Latvia |
Coordinates: | 57.0061°N 21.3869°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Latvia |
Subdivision Type1: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name1: | Ventspils |
Subdivision Type2: | Parish |
Subdivision Name2: | Jūrkalne |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 14 |
Population As Of: | 2015 |
Population Total: | 238 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | Eastern European Time |
Utc Offset1: | +2 |
Timezone1 Dst: | Eastern European Summer Time |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +3 |
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.