Kėdainiai

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Kėdainiai
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State : Lithuania Lithuania
District : Kaunas
Rajong municipality : Kėdainiai
Coordinates : 55 ° 17 ′  N , 23 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 17 ′  N , 23 ° 59 ′  E
Height : 80 m
Area (place) : 25  km²
 
Inhabitants (place) : 30,979 (2008)
Population density : 1,239 inhabitants per km²
Inhabitant (municipality) : 63 559
Time zone : EET (UTC + 2)
Telephone code : (+370) 347
Postal code : 57001
 
Status: City in the district of Kėdainiai
Structure : 1 city office (core city)
 
Mayor : Saulius Grinkevičius
( Lietuvos laisvės sąjunga (liberalai) )
Postal address : J. Basanavičiaus g. 36
57288 Kėdainiai
Website :
Kėdainiai (Lithuania)
Kėdainiai
Kėdainiai

Listen to Kėdainiai ? / i (German Kedahnen , Yiddish Keidan (קיידאן) Polish Kiejdany) is a city in the center of Lithuania on the banks of the Nevėžis river. The core city is the administrative seat of the Rajongemeinde of the same name and in the same an urban district. The place was first mentioned in 1372 and was called a city in the 15th century. The town charter was officially granted in 1590 as Magdeburg law . The city was the center of the Reformation in Lithuania. There is still a Protestant church here, which is rare in the consistently Catholic Lithuania. Audio file / audio sample

history

Kėdainiai is considered one of the oldest urban settlements in Lithuania. The place is mentioned for the first time in 1372 in the Livonian Chronicle of Hermann von Wartberg . The place was owned early on by the powerful and widely ramified Radziwiłł family , some of whom converted to the Calvinist faith during the Reformation . This led to the settlement of Scottish Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries.

The Radziwiłłs promoted the building of Reformed churches and schools. At the beginning of the Second Northern War , on October 20, 1655, leading Lithuanian nobles under the leadership of Janusz Radziwiłł and Bogusław Radziwiłł in the Treaty of Kėdainiai placed themselves under the "protection" of Sweden. This brief alliance between Lithuania and Sweden came to an end again in the Peace of Oliva in 1660.

With the third division of Poland , the place came to Russia in 1795. Between the world wars it belonged to the newly founded Republic of Lithuania . There was also a large Jewish community in the area since the Middle Ages, but most of it was destroyed in the Shoah during the German occupation during the Second World War . After the city came under Soviet rule again at the end of the war, a military airfield was established on site .

Since the declaration of independence in 1918, the place belongs to Lithuania.

In 1993 the Kėdainiai College was established.

The Carmelites - wooden church of St. Joseph
Old town - view of the synagogues
railway station

Attractions

Protestant church

The old town is well preserved and worth seeing. There are several castles and mansions of the Lithuanian nobility in the city, which are now mostly used as public buildings. One of the few minarets in Lithuania is located near the train station .

See also

economy

The city of Kėdainiai is an industrial center in Lithuania. Among other things, the companies Lifosa ( fertilizer production ) and Vikonda ( food production ) have their headquarters here. There is also a sugar factory of Nordic Sugar AS here

Free economic zone

There is a special economic zone in which there are legal and administrative facilities for investors . Kėdainiai Free Economic Zone .

traffic

Kėdainiai Railway Station

Kėdainiai station is a through station of Lietuvos ležinkeliai on the Kaišiadorys – Liepāja railway line , one of the most important long-distance lines in Lithuania. It is mainly used in freight transport. In long-distance passenger transport there are 3 daily train connections to Vilnius and Šiauliai . The station building dates from the 19th century. Coordinates: 55 ° 18 ′ 34.1 ″ N, 23 ° 58 ′ 38.4 ″ E.

The Renaissance pulpit inside the Reformed Church
Tomb of Prince Janusz Radziwiłł in the Reformed Church of Kėdainiai

education

Rajong Parish

The Rajongemeinde Kėdainiai (lit. Kėdainių rajono savivaldybė ) comprises the city of 10 towns ( miesteliai ) and 534 villages.

The towns are: Akademija, Dotnuva, Gudžiūnai, Josvainiai, Krakės, Pagiriai, Pernarava, Surviliškis, Šėta and Truskava.

The Rajongemeinde is divided into 11 administrative districts ( seniūnijos ):

  • Dotnuva
  • Gudžiūnai
  • Josvainiai
  • City of Kėdainiai
  • Krakės
  • Pelėdnagiai
  • Pernarava
  • Surviliškis
  • Šėta
  • Truskava based in Pavermenys
  • Vilainiai

religion

The place is the seat of the Catholic deanery Kėdainiai .

Twin cities

Personalities associated with the place

Web links

Commons : Kėdainiai  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gotthold Rhode : History of Poland. An overview . Wissenschaftliche Buchgemeinschaft, Darmstadt, 3rd edition 1980, ISBN 3-534-00763-8 , p. 277.
  2. ↑ Partnership agreement  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.insiemeineuropa.eu  
  3. ↑ Local history of Kédainiai - traces of the Todleben family ( Lithuanian ) Bernardinai.lt. August 11, 2010. Retrieved February 24, 2015.