Giedraičiai is a town in Molėtai district municipality, Lithuania with about 770 residents. Molėtai district municipality is one of 60 municipalities in Lithuania. Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the It is located some 45 km north of Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, on the banks of Lake Kiementas. It is the capital of an elderate. ||} Seniūnija ( elderate or eldership in English is the smallest administrative division of Lithuania. The town, according to a local legend founded by Duke Giedrius, is first mentioned in written sources in 1338 when Grand Duke Gediminas signed a peace treaty with the Teutonic Knights. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė old literary Lithuanian Didi Kunigiste Letuvos, Ruthenian: Wialikaje Kniastwa Litowskaje Gediminas (ca 1275 – winter 1341 was the Monarch of medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the title lt didysis kunigaikštis (вялікі князь The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. For a long time it was the centre of Giedraičiai family estate. Giedraičiai, (Giedroyć is a Lithuanian noble family most probably rooting up to Mindaugas times although it has no connections with him
It is known that since 1777 the town had a parish school. A hundred years later it was reorganized to a grammar, and later to middle school. Today the high school is named after Antanas Jaroševičius, a painter who in 1912 published an album of Lithuanian crosses. The school building houses a small museum about local history.
In 1410 Church of St. Bartholomew the Apostle was built. Saint Bartholomew was one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus. Bartholomew (Βαρθολομαίος transliterated "Bartholomaios" comes from It was rebuilt in 1809 by Bishop of Samogitia Józef Giedroyć (lt:Juozapas Giedraitis) in the Classicism style. Samogitia ( Samogitian: Žemaitėjė, Žemaitija literally lowlands) is one of the five Ethnographic Regions of Lithuania. Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century both as a reaction against the Rococo In 1838, after his death and according to his wishes, Józef Giedroyć's heart was inlaid into one of the walls. In the mid-19th century a new bell tower was built. A Tower which contains one or more bells or which is obviously designed to hold bells (even if it has none is a bell tower. It is interesting because of unusual design: stone walls are decorated with red bricks.
In 1920 the town witnessed fights between Lithuanians and Poles led by Lucjan Żeligowski. The Polish people, or Poles, (Polacy) are a Western Slavic Ethnic group of Central Europe, living predominantly in Poland. Lucjan Żeligowski (1865-1947 was a Polish General, and veteran of World War I, the Polish-Soviet War and World War II. After the Polish-Lithuanian War, Żeligowski staged a fake rebellion by Polish army units and captured Vilnius on October 9, 1920. His troops were advancing further, but were stopped near Giedraičiai and Širvintos on November 17-21. Širvintos (Polish Szyrwinty) a city in Vilnius County in eastern part of Lithuania. League of Nations interfered and the fighting stopped, but the disputes over the Vilnius region were not resolved. The League of Nations was an International organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919–1920 Vilnius Region ( Lithuanian: Vilniaus kraštas, Wileńszczyzna generally refers to the territory in the present day Lithuania and Belarus The town commemorates the victims with a monument which has survived the Soviet regime. On ornament from the monument, a sword and a trumpet, is used in the coat of arms of the town.
Molėtai Aero Club (ICAO airport code: EYMO) is located some 7 km north of Giedraičiai. The ICAO (ˌaɪˌkeɪˈoʊ Airport code or location indicator is a four-letter Alphanumeric Code designating each airport around
References
- (Lithuanian) Semaška, Algimantas (2006). Kelionių vadovas po Lietuvą: 1000 lankytinų vietovių norintiems geriau pažinti gimtąjį kraštą, 4th ed. , Vilnius: Algimantas, 273-274. ISBN 9986-506-90-4.
External links
- (Lithuanian) Photo gallery
- (Lithuanian) Molėtai Aero Club
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