Dotnuva
Dotnuva | ||
State : | Lithuania | |
District : | Kaunas | |
Rajong municipality : | Kėdainiai | |
Coordinates : | 55 ° 22 ' N , 23 ° 53' E | |
Height : | 48 m | |
Inhabitants (place) : | 687 (2011) | |
Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | |
Postal code : | LT-58057 | |
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Dotnuva (German: Dotnau ) is a town with 687 inhabitants in the Kėdainiai Rayon in Lithuania , next to the state road 144 Kėdainiai - Šiauliai and is about ten kilometers northwest of Kėdainiai. It is the center of the Dotnuva administrative community.
On the south-eastern outskirts there is the Catholic Annunciation Church , built in 1810 . There is also a monastery, the post office (LT-58057) and a library in the village. The Dotnuvėlė flows over Dotnuva and is dammed in a pond on the eastern edge of the city.
history
The place was mentioned in documents as early as the 14th century. Since 1372 it was the center of a municipality ( valsčius ) and since 1582 it is a town. In 1382 it was mentioned in Latin scripts as Datinen , later as Dotnava . The Dotnuva estate was founded in the 14th century and the first wooden church was built in 1636 and the Saint Bernard monastery in 1702 . In 1637 Dotnuva became a city . In the years 1773-1810 today's Catholic Church was built. Dotnuva got the right to the weekly market and 4 annual markets in 1777 from Stanislovas Augustas . In 1924 the Dotnuva Agricultural Academy (now Aleksandras Stulginskis University in Kaunas ) was built.
Web links
- Capuchin Monastery (Lithuanian)
- Dotnuva Estate and Park