Simnas

	Simnas
	coat of arms
	coat of arms
State :	Lithuania
District :	Alytus
Rajong municipality :	Alytus
Founded :	1626 (town charter)
Coordinates :	54 ° 24 ' N , 23 ° 39' E Coordinates: 54 ° 24 ' N , 23 ° 39' E
Height :	108 m
Inhabitants (place) :	1,514 (2011)
Time zone :	EET (UTC + 2)
Postal code :	LT-64037
Status:	Borough
	Simnas
	Simnas

Simnas ( German Simnen ) is a town in the Rajongemeinde Alytus in the district of Alytus in Lithuania . It is located about 70 km southwest of Vilnius .

Simnas Church

history

Simnas received Magdeburg city rights in 1626 .

Others

Ernst Wurche

In his novella The Wanderer Between Two Worlds , Walter Flex reports on the trench warfare near Simnen between the Russian and German armies , in which Flex's war comrade and friend Ernst Wurche was killed in 1915. The wandering bird Wurche, who is portrayed in the book as the ideal image of the German volunteer and front officer, was buried near Simnen.

Web links

http://kehilalinks.jewishgen.org/simnas/simnas.html

Individual evidence

↑ Walter Flex: The wanderer between two worlds. A war experience. In: Wolfgang von Einsiedel, Gert Woerner: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon , Volume 7, Kindler Verlag, Munich 1972.

[kindler-1] Walter Flex: The wanderer between two worlds. A war experience. In: Wolfgang von Einsiedel, Gert Woerner: Kindlers Literatur Lexikon , Volume 7, Kindler Verlag, Munich 1972.