Šakiai

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Šakiai
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State : Lithuania Lithuania
District : Marijampolė
Rajong municipality : Šakiai
Coordinates : 54 ° 57 '  N , 23 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 57 '  N , 23 ° 3'  E
Community area : 1,453  km²
 
Inhabitants (place) : 6,051 (2011)
Inhabitant (municipality) : 36,800
Population density : 25 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : EET (UTC + 2)
Telephone code : (+370) 345
Postal code : 71001
 
Status: Rajongemeinde and
its core city in
Structure : one of their 14 offices
 
Website :
Šakiai (Lithuania)
Šakiai
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Šakiai: View of the city ​​administration
Catholic Church of John the Baptist in Šakiai, built 1934-1940 by Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Šakiai 2014, built in 1842, tower from 1877

Listen to Šakiai ? / i (German also Schaken , formerly Schaki or Schacki , Polish Szaki ) is located in Lithuania and is a small town belonging to the Marijampolė district and the seat of the eponymous district of Šakiai . Audio file / audio sample

Location and inhabitants

It lies on the border with Russia ( Kaliningrad Oblast ) and is around 65 km west of Kaunas . The larger part of the municipality Naumiestis an der Scheschupe with around 6,500 inhabitants belongs to it .

history

In 1719 the first church in Šakiai was built. In the middle of the 19th century the community received city rights. At that time there were four schools in Šakiai. The primary school building was owned by the Protestant parish.

The parish Schaken was on November 3 in 1842 by Baron Gustav Heinrich von Keudell founded, the landlord of the low-Gelgudischken, and equipped in the same year with a church and a rectory. Baron Keudell gave the church school in Schaken rich donations. Gustav von Keudell (born July 20, 1808 in Dombrowo-Gielgudyczki (Prussian Poland), † March 7, 1855 in Berlin) was the son of the founder of the Schaker community. In 1829 he was one of the founders of the Corps Littuania .

Up until the Second World War there was a flourishing community life in Šakiai, both in the Catholic and Protestant churches and in the synagogue . During the war the place was badly destroyed by the German armed forces . Today less than 7000 people live in Šakiai. Before the war there were almost 40,000.

Rajong Parish

The Rajong municipality ( Šakių rajono savivaldybė ) comprises three cities:

in addition the towns ( miesteliai ) Barzdai , Griškabūdis , Kriūkai , Lekėčiai , Lukšiai , Sintautai , Žemoji Panemunė and Žvirgždaičiai , and 533 villages.

It is divided into 14 land offices ( seniūnijos ):

  • Barzdai
  • Gelgaudiškis
  • Griškabūdis
  • Kiduliai
  • Kriūkai
  • Kudirkos Naumiestis
  • Lekėčiai
  • Lukšiai
  • Plokščiai
  • Sintautai
  • Slavikai
  • Sudargas
  • Šakiai
  • Žvirgždaičiai

Twin cities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wagner 1959, pp. 81, 91
  2. ↑ a b Wagner 1959, p. 151
  3. ↑ Walter Passauer: Corp table of the Littuania zu Königsberg . Koenigsberg i. Pr. 1935, p. 34

literature

  • Schwartz, Paul: The Prussian school policy in the provinces of South Prussia and New East Prussia (1795-1807) . In: Journal for the history of education and teaching, 1st year 1911, pp. 133–195. P. 118
  • Wagner, Gustav: The Germans in Lithuania. Your cultural and economic communities between the two world wars . Marburg / Lahn 1959

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Šakiai  - collection of images, videos and audio files