Kūlupėnai

History

The first mention of Kūlupėnai was in 1566 when the country was deciding on volok divisions (a medieval land unit used in Lithuania equivalent to 21.368 hectares). The village owned 20 voloks (427 hectares) of arable land, which peasants rented from the . The village was also assigned several pastures, meadows, and forests. In the 16th–17th centuries, approximately 20 peasant families lived in Kūlupėnai on average at once. Most of these were Roman Catholic farmers who typically attended the built in 1630 (which was reconstructed in 1911). In 1634, the was built for the growing population (which was reconstructed in 1881). Many residents from Kūlupėnai were killed during the Great Northern War plague outbreak and laid to rest in their respective graveyards. Only 11 peasant families survived by 1738. Many of the village's population participated in the November Uprising in 1811. In one battle against soldiers of the Russian Empire in the village of Žarėnai, a peasant named Aloyzas Zubė was killed who was from Kūlupėnai. Several peasants, including Juozas Rupertas, Juozas Jazdauskis, Juozas Šverys, Motiejs Pocias, and Doms Bernotas, were taken in as prisoners. By the mid-18th century, Kūlupėnai was one of the largest villages in the . Other villages began to merge with each other due to a boom in farming in the area. Before this point, Kūlupėnai didn't have a name, so it was named in correspondence to the Kūlupėnai forest and another village was named which was growing closer to Kūlupėnai. By the 19th century, was merged into Kūlupėnai. By the end of the century, Kūlupėnai belonged to Telšiai County. In 1904, the was opened. In 1923, there were 75 claimed farms in the village, and the population was growing steadily, being close in comparison to the village of…

Most-observed species

• Roman Snail

  Helix pomatia Linnaeus, 1758 · Gastropoda
  76
• Common Nettle

  Urtica dioica L. · Magnoliopsida
  49
• Wood Anemone

  Anemone nemorosa L. · Magnoliopsida
  45
• Ivan da Maria

  Melampyrum nemorosum L. · Magnoliopsida
  45
• Ground-elder

  Aegopodium podagraria L. · Magnoliopsida
  43
• Common Crane

  Grus grus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  40
• Norway Spruce

  Picea abies (L.) H.Karst. · Pinopsida
  39
• Brown Lipped Snail

  Cepaea nemoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Gastropoda
  38