Augstkalne Parish

Augstkalne Parish (Latvian: Augstkalnes pagasts) is an administrative unit of Dobele Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. At the beginning of 2014, the population of the parish was 1067.^[3] The administrative center is the village of Augstkalne [lv].

Augstkalne Parish
parish of Latvia
56°24′27″N 23°22′33″E
Country	Latvia
Area [1]
• Total	64.51 km2 (24.91 sq mi)
• Land	63.62 km2 (24.56 sq mi)
• Water	0.89 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Population  (1 January 2024)[2]
• Total	772
• Density	12/km2 (31/sq mi)

Towns, villages and settlements of Augstkalne parish

• Augstkalne (location of Mežmuiža Manor)
• Dzeguzēni
• Klinti

Notable residents

• Georg Mancelius (1593-1654), German Baltic Lutheran theologian and linguist, rector of the University of Tartu, author of the first Latvian dictionary (1638).
• Christoph Friedrich Neander (de) (1723-1802), German Baltic Lutheran pastor, Enlightenment movement worker, author of Kurzeme songbook (1766).

See also

• Mežmuiža Manor