SkirsnemunÄ—

Skirsnemunė is a Lithuanian village on the banks of the Nemunas River. It is the center of the eponymous administrative district of Rajongemeinde Jurbarkas. Situated on the shores of Memel was the Ordensburg Christian Memel in the 14th century. The Lithuanian name is a transformation of this German name. Also for the municipality is the Panemunė Castle (in German: On / Whether the Memel ) in the village of Pili I.

Castle Christian Memel

The Christian Memelburg is called in the Prussian Chronicle ( Chronicon Terrae Prussiae ) by Peter von Dusburg as one of the first castles of the Teutonic Knights on Lithuanian territory. After successful campaigns in the country of Lithuania in the late 13th century / early 14th century, the Knights tried to extend their sphere of influence. At the Memel they had about 3 km to the east of Skirsnemunė former Lithuanian fortress Bisenė already 1283 and again in 1313 stormed ( 1316 finally stormed and burned down ). In the same year, in 1313 they built their own castle Christian Memel. It was in 1315 and 1324 attacked by the Lithuanians unsuccessfully. 1328 gave the knights of the castle, however, and went up to 1336 after Prussia back. Whether it is in the course of the 14th century. again came to a castle building on the same site, is uncertain. As of 1344, Bayer castle was located on the opposite bank of the Memel, near the present village Maštaičiai ( to 1387 ). With the victory of the united Polish-Lithuanian army at the Battle of Tannenberg was Skirsnemunė after 1410 irrevocably to Lithuania. From the castle proclaimed until the 20th century, the remains of two mounds. In a Memel flood in 1946 they were finally leveled.

Skirsnemunė

The present town Skirsnemunė is first mentioned in the 16th century, in 1523 a wooden church. 1792, shortly before the final division of Poland-Lithuania, Skirsnemunė by the Polish king Stanisław August was granted town rights, but these were revoked with the Russian takeover in 1795. Today's neo-Gothic St. George's church dates from 1903.

Gasthof of SILINE

About 2 km east of the town of inn SILINE from the 18th century is He formerly belonged to the nobility of goods Panemunė and later Kliučikas and is one of the oldest secular buildings in rural areas of Lithuania. Today, the management of regional parks and a small exhibition to fish there are accommodated on the Neman.

Regional Park Panemuniai

In the administration of Community Skirsnemunė in SILINE, there is the Directorate of Regional Park Panemuniai.