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26-554: The population in 1959 was 998; ca. 2,000 in 1939; 1,761 in 1897. The town has a secondary school and is a rural community centre. Under the prewar Republic of Lithuania, Kražiai was the township seat of the county of Raseiniai . After World War II it was assigned to the Soviet administrative district of Kelmė . Kražiai is one of the older settlements in Samogitia . Many barrow graves and fortress hills are located in its vicinity. The name of

52-554: A district capital. During World War II, Raseiniai was virtually ruined – approximately 90% of the buildings were destroyed. One survivor of the war is the Church of the Ascension of the Virgin Mary, which was built in 1782. The remains of the 17th–18th century monastery buildings also serve as a monument of Renaissance architecture . Tourists invariably pause at The Samogitian statue in

78-518: Is a highway in Lithuania , connecting the three largest cities in the country: Vilnius , Kaunas , and Klaipėda . The highway is 311.4 kilometres (193.5 mi) long, making it the longest highway route in Lithuania. Highway is indicated as motorway between municipal borders of Vilnius and Klaipėda. This excludes sections that crosses Vievis , Kaunas and Sujainiai (which has one-level junction that

104-651: Is a city in Lithuania . It is located on the south eastern foothills of the Samogitians highland, some 5 km (3.1 mi) north from the Kaunas–Klaipėda highway . Raseiniai is one of the oldest communities in Lithuania – the name of the settlement was mentioned for the first time in 1253. Its name was mentioned in Chronicles of the 13th and 14th centuries under various names, including Rushigen , Rossyen , and Rasseyne . In 1253 Grand Duke Mindaugas ceded one part of

130-512: Is not usual for motorway in Europe, since most motorways here are accessed via grade separated junction. The highway follows E85 for its entire length with the relatively short section of E67 northwest of Kaunas also known as the Via Baltica . The Vilnius–Kaunas highway was completed on 3 November 1970 and Kaunas–Klaipėda was completed on 1 September 1987. It replaced the first 40 kilometers of

156-576: Is used by agricultural vehicles at times). The highway has two carriageways with two lanes each for the entire section. This excludes section near Kaunas between junctions with A5 and A6 highways . It's now undergoing reconstruction where the road will be widened to have four carriageways with two lanes each with one short section with four lanes which is already refurbished. Two outer carriageways will be used for connecting densely located local junctions with speed limit of 90 km/h, while two inner carriageways will avoid connections with local junctions and

182-534: The Kražiai Massacre of 1893. As part of its Russification campaign, the Russian government decided to tear down the local Catholic monastery church. After petitions to save the church were rejected, people began to gather at the church to prevent the removal of sacred objects. This alarmed Kaunas Governor Nikolai Klingenberg, who led a force of police and Don Cossacks that invaded the church and brutally drove out

208-464: The 19th century. In 1831, an insurrection against Tsarist oppression began in Raseiniai. On March 26, the rebels took Raseiniai and formed a provisional district government. Within a few days the insurrection spread throughout the entire country – and was later known as the 1831 Rebellion . The town long had a large Jewish presence. It was among the first Jewish communities established in Lithuania, and

234-571: The Jesuits established Kražiai College . With the transfer of the gymnasium to Kovno in 1848, and owing to a devastating fire the following year, the town lost its importance. After the construction of the Libau–Romny Railway in 1880, it became still poorer, and many families emigrated to the United States , Africa , and Australia . Today, the town is remembered in Lithuania as the site of

260-548: The Samogitia territory, including some of the district around Raseiniai, to the Livonian Order , and the rest to the first bishop of Lithuania, Kristyan. In the 14th–18th centuries, Raseiniai was one of the most important towns in the Samogitia region. At the end of the 14th century, the town became important centre, and its representative participated with others from the region in signing the peace treaty of Königsberg in 1390. At

286-569: The Soviet 3rd Mechanized Corps met the assault of the 6th Panzer Division , with approximately 100 vehicles. A single KV-1 tank managed to hold off the German advance for a full day while being pummeled by a variety of antitank weapons, until finally the KV-1 ran out of ammunition and was knocked out. Raseiniai was captured on 23 June 1941 by troops of the German Army Group North . On 25 July 1941,

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312-487: The central town square. The sculpture serves as a symbol of the Samogitia ethnographical zone – a strong man resolutely stepping forward after having tamed a bear (an allusion to the 1831 Rebellion). On the sides of the base there are three bas-reliefs depicting the struggle against Tsarist oppression. The sculpture, which is the work of Vincas Grybas (1890–1941), was erected in Raseiniai in 1933–1934. In June 1941, near Raseiniai, roughly 20 Kliment Voroshilov tanks (KVs) of

338-529: The county was in the Vilna Governorate , and from 1843 on it became part of the Kovno Governorate . Historically, the chief articles of commerce were wood and grain for export. Because of its geographic position and distance from the railroad and the main highways, it became economically isolated. A fire in 1865 which almost destroyed the town also contributed to the town's decline in the latter half of

364-580: The end of the 15th century, Raseiniai was granted Magdeburg Rights . In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth the town became important in the region. Government institutions were located there, and it served as a mercantile center for the area. In 1580 the local aristocrats met there in order to choose their representatives to the General Sejm (parliament) in Warsaw. From 1585 Raseiniai served as

390-473: The highway were renovated to fulfil the standards for safe 130 km/h traffic. This includes reconstruction of lanes near junctions, reducing amount of some slipways, removing possibility of pedestrian crossing at grade, building pedestrian underpasses and overpasses. New motorway will remain not completely grade separated since there are some points where the highway can be accessed via right ins and outs whom doesn't form parts of grade-separated junctions. This

416-666: The locality is first mentioned (as Crase ) in a 1257 document of King Mindaugas , by which a part of Samogitia was assigned to the Teutonic Order . Vytautas the Great during his first years of rule ceded Samogitia to the Order; the regent he appointed lived in Kražiai. After the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, when Samogitia regained its freedom, Kražiai became the district centre. In the 15th century Kražiai

442-511: The people. Afterwards, a number of Catholics were publicly flogged and about 71 were brought to trial. These events were exploited in anti-Russian and anti-Tsarist propaganda that enhanced the development of Lithuanian national consciousness . Known as "Krozh" in Yiddish , the town had a Jewish community dating back to the 15th century. Among the rabbis of Krozh in the 18th and 19th centuries were: Talmudic scholars and other prominent men of Krozh of

468-595: The permanent location of the county parliament . In 1792 city Magdeburg rights were renewed. The 1st and 3rd Lithuanian National Cavalry Brigades were stationed in the town in the 1790s. Following the third partition of the Commonwealth in 1795, Raseiniai was annexed by the Russian Empire and its town rights were annulled. In the Russian Empire, the town was the center of a Rossieny County . From 1801 to 1843,

494-582: The same period were: Isaac ha-Levi Hurwitz; David, rabbi at Meretz; Zevulun ben Lipman, rabbi at Plungian ; and Rabbi Jacob Joseph , who died in New York in 1902, likewise were natives of Krozh. In 1897 the Jews of Krozh numbered 1,125 out of a total population of about 3,500. About 40% of the former were artisans, a few being farmers and gardeners. Besides the usual charitable institutions, Krozh had two synagogues, two prayer-houses, and about ten different circles for

520-566: The speed limit will be higher with 110 km/h. Inner carriageways will be connected via slip roads from outer carriageways. The main reason why the road is now under construction is that the section has highest AADT in Lithuania of all roads outside urban areas. Before 2021, only section Kaunas-Klaipėda was considered to be a motorway while section Kaunas-Vilnius was considered to be an expressway from 2006. Kaunas-Vilnius had too many substandard features for receiving motorway status. Reconstruction took place in 2020 on which many minor elements of

546-529: The spring of 1915, the Germans concentrated Army Group Lauenstein in the area of Tilsit , with three infantry and three cavalry divisions opposing one infantry division and units of border police and Russian volunteers. The Bavarian cavalry division swept through Raseiniai on April 14 en route to Šiauliai . Refugees from Raseiniai appeared in Šiauliai on the morning of April 15 warning of the German advance. When Lithuania regained Independence in 1918, Raseiniai became

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572-512: The study of the Bible and the Talmud. In 1941, the Jews of the town were murdered in mass executions perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppe of Germans and Lithuanian nationalists. Three hundred Jews twelve years of age and older were massacred in a forest near Kuprė and 70 to 80 Jewish children were massacred near Medžiokalnis. Raseiniai Raseiniai ( pronunciation ; Samogitian : Raseinē )

598-510: The town had 10,579 inhabitants, of whom 8,290 were Jews. In 1897 the population of the district, excluding the town, was 221,731, of whom about 17,000 were Jews. After World War I, however, the Jewish community was smaller. By 1926, 2,226 Jews lived in Raseiniai, and approximately 2,000 (40% of the general population) in 1939. During most of the World War I, the town was occupied by the German army. In

624-1365: The town was placed under the administration of the newly created Reichskommissariat Ostland . Raseiniai was recaptured on 9 August 1944 by Soviet troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front in the course of the Kaunas Offensive . Šiluva town. Where to find: John Paul II House, M. Jurgaitis a. 5, LT - 60433, Šiluva, Raseiniai district. Tel. 8 428 79200, 8 687 87124. Betygala town. Where to find: Dubysos st. 8, Betygala, Raseiniai district. Tel. 8 615 26162, 8 616 50 251. Raseiniai Region History Museum. Where to find: Muziejaus st. 3, Raseiniai. Tel./fax 8 428 51191, tel. 8,663,511. Raseiniai racetracks. Where to find: Paraseinio st. 16, Dumšiškių village, Raseiniai district. Tel. 8 674 96385. Eight-wheeled Museum. Where to find: Vyšnių st. 22, Nemakščiai, Raseiniai d. Tel. 8,687,49215. Daugėliškės cognitive trail. Where to find: Daugėliškės forest, Ariogala sen., Raseiniai district. Tel. 8,618,34611. Molavėnai mound complex. Kur rasti: Molavėnų k., Nemakščių sen., Raseinių r. Tel. 8 618 34611. A1 highway (Lithuania) [REDACTED] A 6 A6 in Kaunas [REDACTED] A 5 A5 in Kaunas [REDACTED] A 8 A8 near Sitkūnai [REDACTED] A 12 A12 near Kryžkalnis The A1 highway

650-518: The town, which is known in Yiddish as Raseyn, became known as the "Jerusalem of Zamut." Jews continued to settle there in large numbers throughout the 17th century. During most of the 19th century, the greater proportion of the town's population was Jewish and it was a center of the Jewish Haskalah (Enlightenment) movement. In 1842 the city had 7,455 inhabitants, the majority of whom were Jews. In 1866

676-481: Was the christening centre of Samogitia. The English Protestant, Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk , and her husband Richard Bertie , exiled during the reign of the staunchly Catholic Queen Mary I of England , resided for some years in Kražiai as administrators on behalf of King Sigismund II Augustus . In the 17th century Kražiai became one of the Catholic centres of the country. There were several monasteries, and

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