Vecumnieki is a village in the Vecumnieki Parish of Bauska Municipality in the Semigallia region of Latvia. Vecumnieki is 51 km southeast of Riga city center. The population of Vecumnieki was 2103 as of 2015. The village is just north of the Jelgava-Krustpils railroad.
Buses from Riga to Skaistkalne, Ilà «kste and Nereta stop at Vecumnieki.
Two reservoirs have been created on stream - and .
Vecumnieki is a historically established settlement, founded in the 2nd-9th centuries according to archeological evidences found in Gypsy castle mound.
The Old Town of Vecumnieki historically has been home to the Drächen Manor (Gut Drakken), the Mansion Manor (Gut MiÃÂhof), the Reschenhof Manor, the (Gut Wiexten, in ), Vecmuià ¾a (Neugut, in Vecumnieki).
Until 1940 the parish was called Vecmuià ¾as pagasts. The Vecumnieki name until 1940 was Vecmuià ¾a ("Neugut").
In 17th and 18th centuries early smelt iron furnaces were operating here.
In 1925, Vecmuià ¾a was granted the status of (village).
The small Vecumnieki Parish Museum is dedicated to scientist, historian and diplomat Arnolds Spekke and local history.