Kėdainiai
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State : | Lithuania | |
District : | Kaunas | |
Rajong municipality : | Kėdainiai | |
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) ) |
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Postal address : | J. Basanavičiaus g. 36 57288 Kėdainiai |
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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.
Kėdainiai (German Kedahnen ,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.
Attractions
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.
education
- Jonušas Radvila Faculty Kėdainiai of the Kaunas College , former high school and college
- Šviesioji-Gymnasium Kėdainiai , founded in 1625 as a lyceum
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
- Castelforte in Latium ( Italy ), since 2007
- Zimnicea in Romania , since 2007
- Łobez in West Pomerania ( Poland ), since 2002
- Sömmerda in Thuringia Germany , since 1989
- Kohtla-Järve in Estonia , since 2007
Personalities associated with the place
- Johann Kasimir von Monkewitz (1722–1789), lieutenant colonel in Schaumburg-Lippe
- Mikalojus Daukša , born around 1530 in the vicinity of Kėdainiai, an activist of the Counter Reformation
- Count Marian Hutten-Czapski (1816–1875), Polish romantic painter and graphic artist and scholar of animal breeding and author of scientific books on beekeeping and hippology, large landowner from Kédainiai until he was exiled to Siberia for supporting anti-Tsarist uprisings in January 1963.
- Count Eduard Iwanowitsch Totleben (1818–1884), Russian general, large landowner in Kédainiai from 1869 and founder of a cellulose factory in nearby Pelédnagiai
- Countess Viktorina Elisabeth Louise Totleben b. von Hauff (1833–1907), wife of Eduard Franz Todleben. In 1900 she had the first hospital built in Kédainiai.
- Moshe Leib Lilienblum (1843–1910), Jewish scholar and pioneer of Zionism
- Anna Katterfeld (1880–1964), German writer
- Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004), born in the village of Šeteniai near Kėdainiai, Polish writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature (1980)
Web links
- Official website
- Kėdainių rajono turizmo informacijos centras (Lithuanian, English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Gotthold Rhode : History of Poland. An overview . Wissenschaftliche Buchgemeinschaft, Darmstadt, 3rd edition 1980, ISBN 3-534-00763-8 , p. 277.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Local history of Kédainiai - traces of the Todleben family ( Lithuanian ) Bernardinai.lt. August 11, 2010. Retrieved February 24, 2015.