Stakliškės

History

The place has been known since the end of the 14th century (in 1375 it was mentioned in the Teutonic Knights Chronicles as Staghelisken, in 1385 as Stakelisken). Since 1513 it was a town, and in 1586 the first church was built. After reforms of the Great Sejm, on 16 January 1792 the monarch Stanisław August Poniatowski granted the town Magdeburg rights. At the time the city was awarded a coat of arms. Stakliškės (Stoklishok in Yiddish) included a large Jewish population prior to World War II. When Germany occupied Lithuania in June of 1941, a few Jews and others suspected of Soviet sympathies were taken away and shot. The remaining Jews were pressed into work until late August and early September, when Nazis and their Lithuanian collaborators murdered all of them along with well over a thousand Jews from surrounding regions. Only one Jewish girl from Stakliškės, Sarah Epshtein, survived under the protection of a Polish estate owner, a peasant couple, and partisan fighters. The current village coat of arms was granted by presidential decree on 18 December 1997.

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  109
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  97
• Common Raven

  Corvus corax Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  70
• Great Spotted Woodpecker

  Dendrocopos major (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  67
• Goldcrest

  Regulus regulus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  64
• White Stork

  Ciconia ciconia (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  62
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  62
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  61