Augstkalne Parish () is an administrative unit of
Dobele Municipality
Dobele Municipality () is a municipality in the historical region of Zemgale, and the Zemgale Planning Region in Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Dobele town and the Annenieki, Auri, Bērze, Biksti, Dobele, Jaunbēr ...
in the
Semigallia
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region of
Latvia
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. At the beginning of 2014, the population of the parish was 1067.
The administrative center is the village of .
Towns, villages and settlements of Augstkalne parish
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Augstkalne (location of
Mežmuiža Manor
Mežmuiža Manor, also called Augstkalne Manor, is a Neo-Gothic style manor house in Augstkalne Parish, Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia.
History
Restored between 1992 and 1994, Mežmuiža Manor dates back to the mid 1870 ...
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* Dzeguzēni
* Klinti
Notable residents
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Georg Mancelius (1593-1654),
German Baltic Lutheran theologian and linguist, rector of the
University of Tartu
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Christoph Friedrich Neander (
de) (1723-1802),
German Baltic Lutheran
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pastor
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,
Enlightenment
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Age of Enlightenment
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movement worker, author of Kurzeme songbook (1766).
See also
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Mežmuiža Manor
Mežmuiža Manor, also called Augstkalne Manor, is a Neo-Gothic style manor house in Augstkalne Parish, Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia.
History
Restored between 1992 and 1994, Mežmuiža Manor dates back to the mid 1870 ...
References
External links
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Parishes in Dobele Municipality
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