Žagarė

Žagarė ( listen / i;? German Schagarren, also Szagarren ) is a city in Lithuania.

Žagarė belongs to Rajongemeinde Joniškis in the district of Šiauliai, an administrative district in the north of Lithuania. Covering an area of 5 km ² live in Žagarė 2,064 inhabitants ( 2010).

The town is just off the north-trending cross border with Latvia. Žagarė is located on the svete ( dt: Schwete ), a left tributary of the Lielupe. In a bog near Žagarė the Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia springs.

The park in Žagarė was significantly influenced by the German landscape architect Georg Kuphaldt ( 1853-1938 ). Originally it was bequeathed by Catherine the Great her last lover Platon Zubov. This gave the park to the Naryshkin family further. It is therefore also Naryshkin Park named after the Russian noble family Naryshkin. Rose Zwi reported in her book " Last walk Naryshkin Park " in detail about the massacre of October 2, 1941, Einsatzgruppe A.

Partner

Hepstedt in Lower Saxony is a partner community.

Sons of the city

  • Jacob Dinesohn (1836-1919), writer
  • Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (1908-1984), Physicist
  • Max E. Mandelstam (1839-1912), ophthalmologist and Zionist
  • Raphael Nathan Rabinowitz (1835-1888), Talmud scholar
  • Israel Salanter (1810-1883), rabbi
  • Anicetas Uogelė ( b. 1933 ), chess player
  • Kalonymos Wissotzky (1824-1904), tea merchant
  • Isaak Konstantinovich Kikoin (1908 - 1984), Russian physicist
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