Žagarė

	Žagarė
coat of arms	flag
State :	Lithuania
District :	Šiauliai
Rajong municipality :	Joniškis
Founded :	1633
Coordinates :	56 ° 22 ′ N , 23 ° 15 ′ E Coordinates: 56 ° 22 ′ N , 23 ° 15 ′ E
Inhabitants (place) :	2,028 (2005)
Time zone :	EET (UTC + 2)
	Žagarė
	Žagarė

The Žagarė Castle stables

Žagarė ( listen ^?^/^I ; German Schagarren, also Szagarren ; Yiddish : Zhager (זשאַגער); Russian : Жагоры; Polish : Żagory) is a city in Lithuania . The municipality is Lithuania's representative in the European Charter - Villages of Europe , a group of rural municipalities from all EU countries.

geography

Žagarė belongs to the Joniškis rajong municipality in Šiauliai District , an administrative district in northern Lithuania. 2064 inhabitants (2010) live in Žagarė on an area of 5 km².

The city lies directly on the northern border with Latvia . Žagarė is located on the Svēte (Eng .: Schwete), a left tributary of the Lielupe . The Mūša , a river in Lithuania and Latvia, has its source in a bog near Žagarė .

history

The park in Žagarė was largely shaped by the German garden architect Georg Kuphaldt (1853–1938). Originally it was bequeathed by Catherine the Great to her last lover, Plato Subov . This passed the park on to the noble Naryshkin family . It is therefore also called Naryshkin Park. Rose Zwi reported in her book "Last walk Naryshkin Park" extensively about the massacre of 2 October 1941 the Einsatzgruppe A .

In 2015 Žagarė was the cultural capital of Lithuania .

Partner communities

Hepstedt in Lower Saxony and Lassee in Lower Austria are two of the 28 partner municipalities within the framework of the European Charter - Villages of Europe , a group of rural municipalities from all 28 EU countries.

Sons of the city

Jakob Dinesohn (1836–1919), writer
Isaak Konstantinowitsch Kikoin (1908–1984), physicist
Max E. Mandelstamm (1839–1912), ophthalmologist and Zionist
Raphael Nathan Rabinowitz (1835–1888), Talmud scholar
Mark Rasumny (1896–1988), poet, writer and translator
Israel Salanter (1810-1883), rabbi
Anicetas Uogelė (* 1933), chess player
Kalonymos Wissotzky (1824–1904), tea merchant

literature

Rose Zwi : Last Walk Naryshkin Park. Journey to a foreign homeland (About the massacre of October 2, 1941, the Jewish Yom Kippur festival, and the author's family members killed in the process), ISBN 3-934703-77-1

Web links

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