Linkmenys

Linkmenys is a village located in Ignalina District Municipality in Utena County, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 134 inhabitants.

Linkmenys
Village
The church
The church
Linkmenys is located in Lithuania
Linkmenys
Linkmenys
Location of Linkmenys
Coordinates: 55°19′08″N 25°57′22″E
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionAukštaitija
CountyUtena County
MunicipalityIgnalina District Municipality
EldershipLinkmenys eldership
Population
 (2011)
 • Total134
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

History
Linkmenys was the location of one of many Roman Catholic churches where the priests had to know the Lithuanian language according to the Grand Duke of Lithuania Alexander Jagiellon in 1501

In Hermann von Wartberge's Chronicon Livoniale it is referred to as Linkmenys Castle, which probably stood on Ginučiai Hillfort. Around 1500, the local church has been erected. Sigismund Augustus had a manor and a town which belonged to the manor in Linkmenys.

Interwar

In 1922, 2 years after Polish–Lithuanian War, the Polish soldiers in Lithuanian school of Linkmenys butted the Vytis as "foreign state sign".[1]

During the interwar period, the village was split by the Polish-Lithuanian demarcation line, however the bigger part of the village was annexed by Poland.

World War II

During World War II, in mid-July 1941, 70 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian collaborators.[2] A memorial stone is erected at the site of the massacre.

Notable people

References
  1. "Occupation of Vilnius Region: Violence, Right and Propaganda". veidas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  2. "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania". holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
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