Skirsnemunė
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| City arms | Location in Lithuania |
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| State : | Lithuania |
| Administrative district : | Tauragė |
| Rajong municipality : | Jurbarkas |
| Coordinates | 55 ° 6 ′ N , 22 ° 54 ′ E |
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| Residents : | 772 (2011) |
| Foundation : | 1313 (mention of the Christmemel Castle) |
| Postal code : | LT-74486 |
| Telephone code : | (+370) 447 |
| Official website of the municipality of Skirsnemunė (lit.) | |
Skirsnemunė is a Lithuanian village on the banks of the Memel River . It is the center of the district of the same office of Rajongemeinde Jurbarkas . In the 14th century, the Christmemel Ordensburg stood directly on the banks of the Memel . The Lithuanian name is a transformation of this German name. The Panemunė Castle (in German: An / Ob der Memel ) in the village of Pilis I also belongs to the administrative district .
Christmemel Castle
Christmemel Castle is mentioned in the Prussian Chronicle ( Chronicon Terrae Prussiae ) by Peter von Dusburg as one of the first castles of the German knights on Lithuanian territory . After successful campaigns in the country of the Lithuanians in the late 13th / beginning of the 14th century, the knights tried to expand their sphere of influence. On the Memel , they had stormed the former Lithuanian fortress Bisenė, located about 3 km east of Skirsnemunė, in 1283 and again in 1313 (finally stormed and burned down in 1316). In the same year 1313 they built their own Christmemel Castle. It was unsuccessfully attacked by the Lithuanians in 1315 and 1324. In 1328, however, the knights gave up the castle and withdrew to Prussia by 1336 . Whether it was in the course of the 14th century was once again to build a castle in the same place is uncertain. From 1344 on the opposite bank of the Memel, near the present-day town of Maštaičiai, there was the Bayerburg (until 1387). With the victory of the united Lithuanian-Polish armies in the Battle of Tannenberg , Skirsnemunė came irrevocably to Lithuania after 1410. The remains of two castle mountains heralded the castle until the 20th century. When the Memel floods in 1946, they were finally leveled.
Skirsnemunė
Today's Skirsnemunė is first mentioned in the 16th century, in 1523 a wooden church. 1792, just before the final partition of Poland-Lithuania , Skirsnemunė received by the Polish king Stanislaw August. II the city rights awarded, which, however, were again denied by the Russian takeover 1795th Today's neo-Gothic St. George's Church dates from 1903.
Silinė Inn
About 2 km east of the village is the Šilinė inn from the 18th century. It used to belong to the noble estates of Panemunė Castle and later to Kliučikas and is one of the oldest preserved non-ecclesiastical buildings in rural Lithuania. Today the administration of the regional park and a small exhibition about fishing on the Memel are housed there.
Panemuniai Regional Park
The Panemuniai Regional Park is located in the Skirsnemunė Administrative Community, in Šilinė .
St. George Church in Skirsnemunė, built in 1903
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Skirsnemunė, built in 1849
Silinė Inn
Web links
- History of Christmemel (Lithuanian)
- Skirsnemunė Municipality (Lithuanian)