Vievis
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| District : | Vilnius | ||
| Municipality : | Elektrėnai | ||
| Founded : | 1539 | ||
| Coordinates : | 54 ° 46 ′ N , 24 ° 49 ′ E | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Telephone code : | (+370) 528 | ||
| Postal code : | 21058 | ||
| Status: | City, center of a part of the municipality |
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Vievis (German, 18th century: Wewien ) is a town and center of the rural authority of the same name in the municipality of Elektrėnai in southeast Lithuania , located in a wooded area on Lake Vievis of the same name . It has around 5,100 inhabitants and is now considered a suburb of Vilnius due to its convenient location on the expressway and the railway line between Vilnius and Kaunas and is characterized by lively investment and construction activity. The Orthodox Church on the eastern outskirts is striking.
history
The first known mention of the place comes from the year 1539.
In 1931 the Roman Catholic Church of St. Anne was built in Vievis . The city charter was granted in 1950.
The local high school (Vievio gimnazija) has maintained a student exchange with the Stephan-Ludwig-Jacobi-Realschule in Kalletal-Hohenhausen since 1991 through the financial support of the “West-Eastern Encounters” foundation . The newly founded Kalletal Community School has been continuing the student exchange since 2015. The German-Lithuanian visits will henceforth take place every two years.
Personalities
- Romanas Algimantas Sedlickas (* 1942), lawyer, lawyer and former politician
- Gintaras Rinkevičius (* 1960), musician, founder, chief conductor and professor
- Algirdas Jurevičius (* 1972), Bishop of Telšiai
Web links
- Neringa Latvyte-Gustaitiene: The Genocide of the Jews in the Trakai Region of Lithuania , in: LitvakSIG Online-Journal , undated (last update January 7, 2006)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Visit from Lithuania in Hohenhausen ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ High school students from Lithuania visit Stephan-Ludwig-Jacobi-Realschule: West-Eastern Encounters in Kalletal.
