Jaunpils
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 Latvia
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| Landscape: | Semgallia ( Latvian : Zemgale ) | ||
| Administrative district : | Jaunpils novads | ||
| Coordinates : | 56 ° 44 ' N , 23 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 961 (Aug 26, 2015) | ||
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| Height : | 56 m | ||
| Website: | www.jaunpils.lv | ||
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Jaunpils ( German Neuchâtel ) is a place in western Latvia and the center of the administrative district of the same name.
history
The place arose around a castle from the 14th century and around the Neuenburg estate. The von der Recke family owned the area for a long time .
Alexander Bernewitz (1863-1935), the first bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church in Braunschweig , was born in the municipality. Alexander Bernewitz was pastor of Neuchâtel / Jaunpils from 1894 to 1908, succeeding his father and his grandfather, before he became General Superintendent of Courland in Mitau / Jelgava . From 1806 to 1920, four pastors Bernewitz worked in Neuchâtel / Jaunpils in three generations . The last in this series was Alexander Bernewitz's cousin Theodor Bernewitz from 1908 to 1920. He was like this successor to his grandfather.
Jaunpils novads
In 2009 Jaunpils novads emerged from the municipalities of Jaunpils and Viesati . In 2010, 2743 residents were registered.
literature
- Hans Feldmann , Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livonia and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-06889-6 , pp. 413-414.
- Astrīda Iltnere (ed.): Latvijas Pagasti, Enciklopēdija. Preses Nams, Riga 2002, ISBN 9984-00-436-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Bernewitz: The Kurländische literati family Bernewitz , in: Baltische Ahnen und Stammtafeln, 22 year Cologne 1978, Ed. Isabella v. Pantzer
Web links
- Neuchâtel . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 7 : Netrebka – Perepiat . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1886, p. 11 (Polish, edu.pl ).
