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.[3] The territory of Ķekava Municipality is defined by Latvian law as belonging partly of the region of Vidzeme and partly to Semigallia.[4]
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[5]
Twin towns — sister cities
See also
References
- ^ "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 7 January 2025.
- ^ "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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