Gargždai
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Klaipeda | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 43 ' N , 21 ° 24' E | ||
| Area (place) : | 10.25 km² | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 14,404 (2017) | ||
| Population density : | 1,405 inhabitants per km² | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | 96001 | ||
| Status: | own municipal office in the district of Klaipėda |
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Gargždai ( German Garsden , Russian Горжды (Gorschdy) until 1917, Yiddish גורזד gorzd ) is a city in western Lithuania in the immediate vicinity of the city of Klaipėda and therefore has a growing population, contrary to the trend in smaller cities. It has the status of a city office ( miesto seniūnija ) in the district of Klaipėda . The Minija flows through the village . Gargždai is located on the the highway -developed highway Magistralinis kelias A1 from Klaipeda to Kaunas and Vilnius . Garsden lies almost directly on the old East Prussian- Lithuanian border; the first East Prussian village on the border near Garsden was Laugallen (now Laugaliai in Lithuanian ).
history
Garsden had a mixed German-Lithuanian population until the outbreak of World War II.
The place was first mentioned in 1253 as Garisda . The town charter was granted in 1792. In 1939 the library of Klaipeda district was established.
The first Holocaust crime on the territory of the Soviet Union took place in Gargždai . On June 24, 1941, German police units shot around 200 male Jewish residents here. This act was also the subject of the Ulm Einsatzgruppen trial . At the end of August / beginning of September 1941, the Jewish women and children of the village who had been held up until then were shot by auxiliary Lithuanian police officers.
city
The FK Banga Gargždai is the most important football club in the city.
The Klaipėda Regional Court has its seat here .
people
- Eduardas Vilkas (1935–2008), mathematician and politician
- Leonas Virginijus Papirtis (* 1949), lawyer and politician
- Andrius Narbekovas (* 1959), theologian, surgeon and professor
- Arminas Narbekovas (* 1965), football player
- Ramunė Visockytė (* 1967), journalist and politician
- Monika Linkytė (* 1992), singer, represented Lithuania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Tauber: Annaberger Annalen No. 5/1997: Garsden, June 24, 1941 (PDF file; 89 kB)