Gargždai

Listen Gargždai / i ( Garsden German, Russian ( until 1917 ) Гордж - Gordsch )? Is a town in western part of Lithuania in the immediate vicinity of the city of Klaipėda and therefore contrary to the trend in smaller towns growing population numbers. It has the status of a municipal office ( miesto seniūnija ) in the Rajongemeinde Klaipeda. Through the town flows the Minija. Gargždai is located on the highway from Klaipeda to Kaunas and Vilnius. Garsden is almost right at the old East Prussian - Lithuanian border; the first East Prussian town on the border with Garsden was Laugallen (now Lithuanian Laugaliai ).

History

Had Garsden until the outbreak of the Second World War, a German - Lithuanian mixed population.

The place was first mentioned in 1253 as Garisda. The town charter was granted in 1792.

In Gargždai the first Holocaust crime was committed on the territory of the Soviet Union. On June 24, 1941 shot here German police units about 200 male Jewish population. This fact was also the subject of the Ulm Einsatzgruppen process. The end of August / beginning of September 1941, the hitherto imprisoned Jewish women and children of the village were then shot by Lithuanian auxiliary police.

City

The FK Banga Gargždai is the most important football club in the city.

Here his seat, the district court Klaipeda.

Sons of the city

• Andrius Narbekovas (* 1959), theologian and surgeon, Professor
• Arminas Narbekovas (born 1965 ), football player
• Leonas Virginijus Papirtis ( b. 1949 ), lawyer, former deputy foreign minister.