Rokiškis
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State : | Lithuania | |
District : | Panevėžys | |
Rajong municipality : | Rokiškis | |
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 |
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Rajongemeinde in northeastern Lithuania , not far from the border with Latvia . It belongs to the Panevėžys district .
Rokiškis (German Rokischken , Polish Rakiszki ) is a town of about 14,400 inhabitants and the seat of the same namehistory
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
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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
- Jonas Mulokas (1907–1983), architect and engineer
- Algirdas Brazauskas (1932–2010), Soviet-Lithuanian politician, Lithuanian President and Prime Minister
- Antanas Trumpa (* 1942), entrepreneur
- Alfredas Pekeliūnas (* 1948), agricultural entrepreneur and politician
- Algis Kazulėnas (* 1962), politician
- Milda Vainiutė (* 1962), lawyer
- Loreta Graužinienė (* 1963), politician
- Audrius Klišonis (* 1964), politician
- Dangutė Mikutienė (* 1966), politician
- Martynas Šlikas (* 1977), ice hockey player
- Raivydas Stanys (* 1987), high jumper
- Liveta Jasiūnaitė (* 1994), javelin thrower
- Jaunius Jasinevičius (* 1996), ice hockey player
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census. Statistics Departamentas (Lithuania), accessed on August 3, 2017 .