Skirsnemunė

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Skirsnemunė

Total population

772

Elevation50 m

Coordinates55.09°, 22.90°

Demographic figures from Statistics Lithuania. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Skirsnemunė is a town in Jurbarkas district municipality, Tauragė County, Lithuania. It is situated on the Neman River about 9 km from Jurbarkas. According to the 2011 census, it had 772 residents. The town traces it history to Christmemel, a fortress built by the Teutonic Knights on a nearby hill fort in 1313. The fortress was abandoned in 1328. The town church was funded by the last will of Mykolas, son of Jonas Kęsgaila, in 1523. Skirsnemunė received Magdeburg rights in 1792.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Romualdas Marcinkus

Lithuanian pilot and footballer (1907-1944)

Arkady Kolesnikov

Russian physicist (1907–1978)

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Arvydas Vidžiūnas

Lithuanian politician

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Juozas Žilys

Lithuanian jurist

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Vytautas Kriauza

Lithuanian neurosurgeon

Andrius Pojavis

Lithuanian singer-songwriter

Julie Pfannenschmidt

German writer (1806-1868)

Jurgis Baltrušaitis

Lithuanian poet and translator (1873–1944)

Antoni Giełgud

Polish general (1792–1831)

Hieronim Kajsiewicz

Polish writer

Antanas Račas

Lithuanian politician (1940-2014)

Józef Zaliwski

pułkownik of Kingdom of Poland, independence activist

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Selig Schachnowitz

Jewish writer (1874-1952)

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Sol Goldstein

American Zionist activist (1914–1992)

Jan Czeraszkiewicz

Polish lawyer

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Algirdas Gudaitis

Lithuanian politician

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.