Ķekava Municipality
Ķekavas novads
Municipality
Flag of Ķekava Municipality
Flag
Coat of arms of Ķekava Municipality
Coat of arms
Country Latvia
Formed2009
Reformed2021
CentreĶekava
Government
 • Council ChairViktorija Baire (Independent)
Area
[1]
 • Total444.26 km2 (171.53 sq mi)
 • Land424.65 km2 (163.96 sq mi)
Population
 (2023)[2]
 • Total31,143
 • Density70/km2 (180/sq mi)
Websitewww.kekava.lv

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

Ķekava is twinned with:[6]

Images

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Reģionu, novadu, pilsētu un pagastu kopējā un sauszemes platība gada sākumā". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Iedzīvotāju skaits pēc tautības reģionos, pilsētās, novados, pagastos, apkaimēs un blīvi apdzīvotās teritorijās gada sākumā (pēc administratīvi teritoriālās reformas 2021. gadā) 2021 - 2022". Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  3. ↑ Law on Administrative Territories and Populated Areas
  4. ↑ Latviešu vēsturisko zemju likums
  5. ↑ "Culture in Ķekava municipality".
  6. ↑ "Starptautiskā sadarbība". kekava.lv (in Latvian). Ķekavas novads. Retrieved 2019-09-16.

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