Birštonas

Birštonas ( German, 18th Century: Birschtannen ) is a resort town in the southern part of Lithuania. The city is the seat of the municipality Birštonas in Kaunas district. The city's name is attributed to biržtva ( " Birch Grove ").

Geography

The Birštonas located 39 km south of Kaunas and 7 km southeast of Prienai, on the right bank of the river Memel ( Nemunas ). Birštonas located in Memel loop Regional Park. In the three artificial lakes in the city you can swim. In the urban area of 13 km ² live 3136 people.

History

The salty springs were in 1382 in Marburg Wiegandchronik of the Teutonic Order. mentioned. On the Birštonas Castle, the Lithuanian Grand Duke rebounded in the Middle Ages after the hunt. The 30 meter high Birštonas Hill ( Vytautas hill ) is one of the most famous hill in Lithuania since the late 16th century there the wooden castle and the estate subsequent to the Grand Duke Vytautas was.

The spa Birštonas was known by its mineral water. After the sources were only occasionally visited by aristocratic hunting parties, began in 1846 a real Kurbetrieb. After suffering heavy damage in World War 1, the Lithuanian Red Cross taught here a sanatorium No. 1.

Since 1980 it hosts the international festival Birštonas jazz every two years in March at the Cultural Center instead.

The winter sport is promoted in Birštonas, there are two ski slopes (160 and 300 meters), with ski lifts available that are lit up at night.

Kurbetrieb

1846, the means of healing mineral water Birštonas was officially recognized. In Birstonas there since 1924 and the oldest mineral water bottling company (Trade Vytautas and Birutė ) in Lithuania.

Sanatoriums

There are some clinics and sanatoriums ( with sources). In addition, there are cures vacation options including accommodation, full board, many spa treatments (massages, mud baths, bathing and drinking cures, etc.) and specialist medical examinations not necessarily just for Rheabilitationszwecke.

Services

Many sanatoriums offer various mineral water and mud procedures with mineral baths, inhalations healing, movement therapies and other applications.

In the clinics of Birštonas these disorders are treated:

There is also the southern outskirts of the " Birštoner homestead " ( Birštono Vienkiemis ), a large senior center.

Twinning

• Estonia Keila, Estonia
• Żnin Poland, Poland
• Latvia Sigulda, Latvia
• Lithuania Neringa, Lithuania

• Germany Leck, Germany
• Norway Bykle, Norway
• France La Croix -en- Touraine, France
• Sysmä Finland, Finland

Gallery

SPA Hotel " Karališkoji Rezidencija "

Sanatorium, 1977

" Tulpė " Sanatorium

AB Birštono Sanatorija " Versmė "

Kurhaus ( Birštono kurhauzas )