Kekava Municipality
Ķekava Municipality (Latvian: Ķekavas novads) is a municipality in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Baloži town, Daugmale Parish and Ķekava Parish, the administrative centre being Ķekava.
On 1 July 2021, Ķekava Municipality was enlarged when the former Baldone Municipality was merged into it. The territory of Ķekava Municipality is defined by Latvian law as belonging partly of the region of Vidzeme and partly to Semigallia.
Sightseeing
- Local History Museum of Ķekava
- Museum of Daugmale elementary school
- Pines of Katlakalns
- Ostvald's canal
- Ķekava (Dole) Lutheran Church
- Lutheran church in Odukalns
- Katlakalns Church
- Dole Recreation center
- Ķekava primary school
- Manor house of Rāmava
- Memorial stone to honor repressed people from the region
- E. Ostwald's Memorial stone
- Gravestones of Garlieb Merkel and Johann Heinrich Baumann in Katlakalns cemetery
- Memorial stone for Roberts Mūrnieks
- Memorial stone "Refugee road"
- Jāņi Hill – sacred hill of ancestors
- Death Island
- World War I cemetery at Truseļi
- Katlakalns World War I cemetery
- Baloži Frog
- Fountain in Baloži
- Titurga lake
- Daugmale castle mound
- Mūlkalns
Twin towns — sister cities
Ķekava is twinned with:
See also
References
- ^ "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Iedzīvotāju skaits pēc tautības reģionos, pilsētās, novados, pagastos, apkaimēs un blīvi apdzīvotās teritorijās gada sākumā (pēc administratīvi teritoriālās reformas 2021. gadā)". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 21 June 2024.
- ^ "Administratīvo teritoriju un apdzīvoto vietu likums". LIKUMI.LV (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ vestnesis.lv. "Latviešu vēsturisko zemju likums - Latvijas Vēstnesis". www.vestnesis.lv (in Latvian). Retrieved 2024-08-08.
- ^ "Culture in Ķekava municipality".
- ^ "Starptautiskā sadarbība". kekava.lv (in Latvian). Ķekavas novads. Retrieved 2019-09-16.
External links
Media related to Ķekava Municipality at Wikimedia Commons
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