Jūrkalne Village, Latvia

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).

Jūrkalne
Village
 Country     Latvia
 Municipality  Ventspils
 Parish  Jūrkalne
 Elevation  14 m (46 ft)
 Population (2021)  195
 Website  www.jurkalne.lv

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