Rokiškis

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Rokiškis
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State : Lithuania Lithuania
District : Panevėžys
Rajong municipality : Rokiškis
Coordinates : 55 ° 58 ′  N , 25 ° 36 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 58 ′  N , 25 ° 36 ′  E
Community area : 1,807  km²
 
Inhabitants (place) : 14,351 (2011)
Inhabitant (municipality) : 39,458
Population density : 22 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : EET (UTC + 2)
Telephone code : (+370) 458
Postal code : 42001
 
Status: Rajong Parish
Structure : 1 city office (core city),
9 further administrative districts
 
Website :
Rokiškis (Lithuania)
Rokiškis
Rokiškis

Listen to Rokiškis ? / I (German Rokischken , Polish Rakiszki ) is a town of about 14,400 inhabitants and the seat of the same name Rajongemeinde in northeastern Lithuania , not far from the border with Latvia . It belongs to the Panevėžys district . Audio file / audio sample

history

The former manor house of the von Tiesenhausen family / Tyzenhaus in Rokiškis

The Rokiškis estate was first mentioned in 1499 in a letter from Alexander , the Grand Duke of Lithuania . His successor, Sigismund the Elder, gave the castle as a gift in 1523 to the Kroszinski royal family , who ruled the area for over 200 years. Then the rule passed through marriage to the originally Baltic German count family Tyzenhaus (Polonized form of Tiesenhausen ). In their time, buildings were erected that still shape the city today, especially the St. Matthew's Church, designed by the German architect Gustav von Schacht and built from 1868 to 1883, which is considered the most important neo-Gothic building in Lithuania

St. Matthew's Church, to the right of it the St. Joseph Chapel, built 1881 - 1885

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When the Wehrmacht invaded the Soviet Union on June 21, 1941 , Lithuania was quickly overrun by German troops. Task forces of the Security Police and SD quickly followed them to arrest and kill the Lithuanian Jews. Jews from Rokiškis and the surrounding area were killed in nearby forests. The Jäger report contains the information that a total of 3,208 Jews were killed there on August 15 and 16, 1941. Jews were also deported to the Joniškis ghetto and killed there.

During the time of Soviet Lithuania , the Rokiškis Technical Center was founded, the Rokiškis School of Culture in 1967 and the Psychiatric Hospital in 1974 .

economy

Important industrial companies are the agricultural machinery manufacturer Rokiškio mašinų gamykla and the dairy group Rokiškio sūris .

Rajong Parish

The Rajong municipality ( Rokiškio rajono savivaldybė ) comprises the three towns of Rokiškis, Obeliai (1371 inhabitants) and Pandėlys (1024 inhabitants), the 9 towns ( miesteliai ) Čedasai, Duokiškis, Juodupė (2023 inhabitants), Jūunajlėis, Jūunajlėžintai, Kamajlėžintai Panemunis, Salos ir Suvainiškis, and 689 villages, including Kavoliškis with 1,428 inhabitants.

It is divided into ten administrative districts ( seniūnijos ):

  • Juodupė
  • Jūžintai
  • Kamajai
  • Kazliškis
  • Kriaunos
  • Obeliai
  • Pandėlys
  • Panemunėlis
  • Rokiškis Land
  • Rokiškis city

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Rokiškis , in: Guy Miron (Ed.): The Yad Vashem encyclopedia of the ghettos during the Holocaust . Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2009 ISBN 978-965-308-345-5 , p. 662
  • Alexander Kruglov, Martin Dean: Rokiškis , in: Martin Dean (Ed.): The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945. Vol. 2, ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe: Part B . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-253-00227-3 , pp. 1111-1112

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census. Statistics Departamentas (Lithuania), accessed on August 3, 2017 .