Raudonė is a town on the Neman River in Tauragė County, Lithuania. A town is a type of settlement ranging from a few to several thousand (occasionally hundreds of thousands inhabitants although it may be applied loosely even to huge metropolitan "Nieman" and "Niemen" redirects here For other uses see Neman and Nieman (disambiguation. Tauragė County (Lithuanian Tauragės apskritis) is one of ten counties in Lithuania. Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika is a Country in Eastern often referred to as Northern Europe or in the The town is primarily known for its castle and large park complex.
History
Under the leadership of King John of Bohemia and Duke Henry XIV of Lower Bavaria, an expedition of Teutonic Knights and other crusaders founded an earth-and-timber castle on the Neman River, opposite the ruins of Christmemel in 1337. John the Blind ( Luxembourgish: Jang de Blannen; German: Johann der Blinde von Luxemburg Bohemia (Čechy; Bohemia Czechy is a historical region in central Europe, occupying the western two-thirds of the traditional Czech Lands, currently the Henry XIV duke of Bavaria, as duke of Lower Bavaria also called Henry II Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the east of the state The Teutonic Order is a German Roman Catholic religious order. The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Crusades undertaken by the Catholic kings of Denmark and Sweden, the German Livonian Skirsnemunė is a village on the Neman River in Tauragė County, Lithuania. In honor of Henry, the castle was given the German name Bayerburg (also Bayersburg; Lithuanian: Raudonpilis), meaning "Bavarian('s) Castle". The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Lithuanian ( lietuvių kalba) is the official state language of Lithuania and is recognised as one of the official languages of the European Union.
The castle was used as a base and supply depot for expeditions into central Lithuania or northward into Samogitia. Samogitia ( Samogitian: Žemaitėjė, Žemaitija literally lowlands) is one of the five Ethnographic Regions of Lithuania. A year later it was unsuccessfully besieged for 22 days by Gediminas of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Gediminas (ca 1275 – winter 1341 was the Monarch of medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the title lt didysis kunigaikštis (вялікі князь The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė old literary Lithuanian Didi Kunigiste Letuvos, Ruthenian: Wialikaje Kniastwa Litowskaje As Gediminas died during a later siege of the castle in 1341, a local legend attests that the Gediminas Oak of the park complex is where the grand duke was mortally wounded. His sons eventually conquered the castle of Bayerburg after his death.
In the 16th century the castle belonged to King Sigismund II Augustus of Poland. Raudonė Castle is in Raudonė, Lithuania. Castle construction works started in late 16th century For other nobles of the same name please see Sigismund. Sigismund II Augustus I (Zygmunt II August A new castle was built on the ruins of the old one by a German knight, Krispin Kirschenstein. The German people (Deutsche are an Ethnic group, in the sense of sharing a common German culture, descent and speaking the German language as The castle has since been renovated many times (in the 18th century by the Olendzki family), and today is an example of 19th century neo-Gothic architecture. The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement which began Its last private owners were Sofia Vaksel (a Zubov) and her Portuguese husband, José Carlos de Faria e Castro. Zubov (Зу́бов was a Russian noble family which rose to the highest offices of state in the 1790s when Platon Zubov succeeded Count Orlov and
A recently restored monument honoring the Red Army, is in the park adjoining the castle.
The original castle of Raudonė is the setting of an East Prussian legend known as Die weiße Jungfrau der Bayerburg ("The White Maiden of Bayerburg"). East Prussia (Ostpreußen; Rytų Prūsija or Rytprūsiai; Prusy Wschodnie Восточная Пруссия or Vostochnaya Prussiya) refers to the main part A legend ( Latin, legenda, "things to be read" is a Narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to [1]
References
- Urban, William. The Teutonic Knights: A Military History. Greenhill Books. London, 2003, p. 133. ISBN 1853675350
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