Žagarė
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State : | Lithuania | ||
District : | Šiauliai | ||
Rajong municipality : | Joniškis | ||
Founded : | 1633 | ||
Coordinates : | 56 ° 22 ′ N , 23 ° 15 ′ E | ||
Inhabitants (place) : | 2,028 (2005) | ||
Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
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Žagarė ( German Schagarren, also Szagarren ; Yiddish : Zhager (זשאַגער); Russian : Жагоры; Polish : Żagory) is a city in Lithuania . The municipality is Lithuania's representative in the European Charter - Villages of Europe , a group of rural municipalities from all EU countries.
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Žagarė belongs to the Joniškis rajong municipality in Šiauliai District , an administrative district in northern Lithuania. 2064 inhabitants (2010) live in Žagarė on an area of 5 km².
The city lies directly on the northern border with Latvia . Žagarė is located on the Svēte (Eng .: Schwete), a left tributary of the Lielupe . The Mūša , a river in Lithuania and Latvia, has its source in a bog near Žagarė .
history
The park in Žagarė was largely shaped by the German garden architect Georg Kuphaldt (1853–1938). Originally it was bequeathed by Catherine the Great to her last lover, Plato Subov . This passed the park on to the noble Naryshkin family . It is therefore also called Naryshkin Park. Rose Zwi reported in her book "Last walk Naryshkin Park" extensively about the massacre of 2 October 1941 the Einsatzgruppe A .
In 2015 Žagarė was the cultural capital of Lithuania .
Partner communities
Hepstedt in Lower Saxony and Lassee in Lower Austria are two of the 28 partner municipalities within the framework of the European Charter - Villages of Europe , a group of rural municipalities from all 28 EU countries.
Sons of the city
- Jakob Dinesohn (1836–1919), writer
- Isaak Konstantinowitsch Kikoin (1908–1984), physicist
- Max E. Mandelstamm (1839–1912), ophthalmologist and Zionist
- Raphael Nathan Rabinowitz (1835–1888), Talmud scholar
- Mark Rasumny (1896–1988), poet, writer and translator
- Israel Salanter (1810-1883), rabbi
- Anicetas Uogelė (* 1933), chess player
- Kalonymos Wissotzky (1824–1904), tea merchant
literature
- Rose Zwi : Last Walk Naryshkin Park. Journey to a foreign homeland (About the massacre of October 2, 1941, the Jewish Yom Kippur festival, and the author's family members killed in the process), ISBN 3-934703-77-1