Juknaičiai (Šilutė)

	Juknaičiai
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
State :	Lithuania
District :	Klaipeda
Rajong municipality :	Šilutė
Office :	Juknaičiai
Coordinates :	55 ° 17 ′ N , 21 ° 35 ′ E Coordinates: 55 ° 17 ′ N , 21 ° 35 ′ E
Inhabitants (place) :	892 (2011)
Time zone :	EET (UTC + 2)
Status:	Village
	Juknaičiai
	Juknaičiai

Juknaičiai ( German Jugnaten ) is a village in the Lithuanian district of Klaipėda . The place is the center of the district (Seniūnija) Juknaičiai and belongs to the Rajongemeinde Šilutė .

Geographical location

Aerial view of Juknaičiai

Juknaičiai is located in the southwest of Lithuania , in the former Memelland , about nine kilometers southwest of the municipality seat Šilutė . National road 141 , which connects Kaunas with Klaipėda , passes on the southwestern outskirts . Juknaičiai has a stop on the Sowetsk – Klaipėda railway line , on which passenger traffic has been suspended since 2011.

history

Since 1874 Jugnaten belonged (apparently) to the Wieszen district in the Heydekrug district .

Since its incorporation into the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , Juknaičiai has always been the seat of an administrative district; since 1945 a municipality (lit. valsčius), since 1950 a district (lit. apylinkė) and since 1995 an administrative district. As such, the place got a coat of arms in 2008.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	0439
1959	0231
1970	0259
1979	0715
1989	1206
2001	1106
2011	0892

Infrastructure

There is a secondary school in Juknaičiai.

Attractions

In the former model collective farm there is still a recreation center designed in 1985 by architects S. Kalinka and P. Grecevičius. Inside the building there is a glass sculpture by Algimantas Stoškus , stained glass windows by Konstantinas Šatūnas and the fresco The Harvest Celebration by Angelina Banyté .

Sons and daughters of the place

Horst Skodlerrak (January 18, 1920 - October 13, 2001), German painter
Regina Eitmonė (born December 7, 1961), politician

Juknaičiai District

The location of the Juknaičiai district in the south of the Šilutė district

The Juknaičių seniūnija, which belongs to the Rajongemeinde Šilutė , has existed since 1995 . In the district there are 26 villages with a total of 2,466 inhabitants on an area of 160 km² (as of 2011). The county is divided since 2009 into the eleven subdistricts (lit. Seniūnaitija) Drunšilių seniūnaitija, Juknaičių I seniūnaitija, Juknaičių II seniūnaitija, Kanteriškių seniūnaitija, Leitgirių seniūnaitija, Menklaukių seniūnaitija, Paleičių seniūnaitija, Pašyšių seniūnaitija, Rumšų seniūnaitija, Šėrių seniūnaitija and Tarvydų seniūnaitija. The district includes:

Place name	German name	Subdistrict	Place name	German name	Subdistrict
Domaičiai	Heydeberg	Leitgiriai	Okslindžiai	Okslinden	Menklaukiai
Drunšiliai	Drone tent	Drunšiliai	Paleičiai	Paleiten	Paleičiai
Girininkai	Girreningken	Paleičiai	Pašyšiai	Paszieszen	Pašyšiai
Gurgždžiai	Gurgsden	Drunšiliai	Piktaičiai	Picts	Rumšai
Jakšteliai	Hunting spots	Kanteriškiai	Rumšai	Messing around	Rumšai
Juknaičiai	Youth	Juknaičiai I u. II	Skieriai	Neusaß-Sköries	Menklaukiai
Kanteriškiai	Kanterischken	Kanteriškiai	Šėriai	Neusaß-Scheer	Šėriai
Klugonai	Wise guys	Juknaičiai I	Šilininkai	Great Schilleningken	Paleičiai
Kūgeliai	Kugeleit	Šėriai	Šilviai	Schillwen	Drunšiliai
Kūlynai	Kuhlins	Paleičiai	Tarvydai	Minneiken u. Tarwieden	Tarvydai
Leitgiriai	Leader	Leitgiriai	Tautiškiai	Tautischken	Drunšiliai
Menklaukiai	Mankuslauken	Menklaukiai	Vaitkaičiai	Woitkaten	Menklaukiai
Naujininkai	Neusaß-Gritzas	Menklaukiai	Vyžiai	Wieszen	Juknaičiai I

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ census data
↑ Frederic Chaubin: CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed . Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8365-6505-9 , pp. 228 ff .

[1] sus data

[2] Frederic Chaubin: CCCP. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed . Taschen, ISBN 978-3-8365-6505-9 , pp. 228 ff .