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Subdivisions Of Kaunas
The major administrative subdivisions of Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Tra ..., Lithuania, are elderates ( lt, seniūnija, "eldership"). They are further partitioned into traditional neighborhoods of two levels: "city parts" (miesto dalys) and "city territories" (miesto teritorijos). Subdivision According to the 2001 general plan, the city was subdivided into 10 elderates and 32 city parts as shown in the table. Currently Kaunas city municipality has 11 elderates. (Kaunas city municipality) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaunas 2001
Kaunas (; ; also see #Etymology, other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Trakai Voivodeship, Trakai Palatinate since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kovno Governorate, Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. During the interwar period, it served as the temporary capital of Lithuania, when Vilnius was Polish–Lithuanian War, seized and controlled by Second Polish Republic, Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas was celebrated for its rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco and Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural-style buildings as well as popular furniture, the interior design of the time, and a widespread café culture. The city interwar architecture is regarded as among the fine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panemunė (Kaunas)
Panemunė (; ) is a town in Lithuania. It is situated on the banks of the Nemunas River opposite Sovetsk, south from Pagėgiai, in Tauragė County. It is a border checkpoint for traffic to and from Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast). The magnificent '' Queen Louise Bridge'' (which still exists, built in 1907, though now badly scarred by World War II and rebuilt in 1946) links Panemunė to the city of Sovetsk (Tilsit until 1946) just south across the river. The landmark arch now lies on the Russian side. History The area comprising today's Panemunė used to be the northern trans-Memel (Neman) suburb of Tilsit, then a Prussian and later also German town (as of 1871). Then Tilsit sat close to the border between Germany and Russia. After Germany's defeat in World War I, the trans-Memel suburb was disentangled from Tilsit (with the rest of the Memelland/Klaipėda Region detached from the Province of East Prussia) in 1920. The suburb was given the name ''Übermemel'', which means ''ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gričiupis
Gričiupis is a neighborhood of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, located on the right bank of the Nemunas River. It has elderate status, and is the smallest elderate in the city. Its administrative status as an elderate was established in 2005, when it was detached from Dainava elderate. In 2006 its population was 34,301 in an area of 3.81 square kilometers. The elderate of Gričiupis contains an old Jewish cemetery, Lithuanian Zoo, many faculties of Kaunas University of Technology, 6th Fort of Kaunas Fortress Kaunas Fortress ( lt, Kauno tvirtovė, russian: Кοвенская крепость, german: Festung Kowno) is the remains of a fortress complex in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was constructed and renovated between 1882 and 1915 to protect the Russian E ..., and St. Anthony of Padova Church. External links *Gričiupis elderate information Neighbourhoods of Kaunas {{KaunasCounty-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dainava (Kaunas)
Dainava is a mostly Soviet-built neighbourhood built in 1963, initially as a microdistrict) located in the north-northeast part of second largest Lithuanian city of Kaunas Kaunas (; ; also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the largest city and the centre of a county in the Duchy of Trakai .... It has an elderate status. Before 2005 it included the Gričiupis section (''dalys''), split into a separate elderate. The borough borders Highway A1, and Kaunas Free Economic Zone in the north, Petrašiūnai borough in the east, Gričiupis elderate in the south as well as Žaliakalnis and Eiguliai elderate s in the west. Known for parks, most of them renovated since late 2010s, dense network of public transport, many trolleybus lines crosses the neighborhood. Largest being Park of Friendship ( lt, Draugystės parkas) completed in 1973. The neighbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiguliai
Eiguliai is neighorhood in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania. Eiguliai elderate encompass Eiguliai, Kleboniškis and part of Kalniečiai neighbourhoods. Elderate itself is located on the left bank of the Neris River. The distance from Eiguliai neighborhood to Kaunas centre is approximately 6 km. The settlement was a small village until it was incorporated into Kaunas in 1959 and a residential microdistrict was built in 1979. The 7th Fort of the Kaunas Fortress are located in this eldership. The borough borders Dainava in the east, Žaliakalnis in the south, Vilijampolė and Šilainiai in the west and Domeikava with Lapės in the north. It has 40,453 inhabitants which represent 13.82 % of the population of Kaunas city municipality. Cemetery A number of famous people were buried in the Eiguliai cemetery: * Jonas Bulota (1855–1942), organist, veterinarian * Stepas Butautas (1925–2001), sports activists * Klemensas Čerbulėnas (1912–1986), ethnographer and art critic, ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naujamiestis (Kaunas) , a town in Šilutė district municipality, Lithuania
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Naujamiestis (literally: ''new city'' in Lithuanian) can refer to: *Kudirkos Naumiestis, a city in Šakiai district municipality, Lithuania *Naujamiestis, Panevėžys, a town in Panevėžys district municipality, Lithuania *Naujamiestis, Vilnius, a neighborhood in Vilnius, capital of Lithuania *Žemaičių Naumiestis Žemaičių Naumiestis ( pl, Nowe Miasto, yi, ניישטאָט טאווריג, ניישטאָט סוגינט) is a town in Klaipėda county, Šilutė district municipality in western Lithuania, between Klaipėda and Kaliningrad Oblast. The riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Centro Seniūnija
The Centras eldership ( lt, Centro seniūnija) is an eldership in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, based on two neighbourhoods of Kaunas - the Old City and the New City. It lies at the confluence of two major Lithuanian rivers, the Nemunas and the Neris. The borough borders Žaliakalnis in the north, Šančiai in the east, Aleksotas in the south and Vilijampolė in the west. Kaunas Old Town - the oldest part of Kaunas town, located to the east of the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers, occupies 144 hectares. There are a lot of surviving Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque buildings, especially in the western part of the Old Town. Many notable buildings and facilities are located in the Old Town, such as the Kaunas Town Hall, the Kaunas Castle and the Historical Presidential Palace, House of Perkūnas, also the Kaunas Cathedral, the Church of St. Gertrude, Vytautas' church and many other churches. Great variety of museums, such as Museum of the History of Lithuanian Medicine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
