Jūrkalne

Jūrkalne
Village
Monument to the victims of wars and revolutions in Jūrkalne
Jūrkalne Location in Latvia
Coordinates: 57°00′22″N 21°23′13″E
Country	Latvia
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″N 21°23′13″E

References

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