Jieznas and Stališkės - two baroque townships to the south from Kaunas
Two small townships to the south from Kaunas - Jieznas and Stakliškės - are in many senses typical for this country. Even because each of them has baroque churches:))
Jieznas is a small township located about 50 km from Kaunas while Stakliškės is even smaller township located about 10 km further to the east from Jieznas. This map shows approximate location of both townships:
Each of them has the monument left from the baroque era - the church.
In Jieznas church is older and in principle more famous. It could be called the monument of the early baroque. Protestant church in Jieznas was built in 1611. This church in 1640 has been captured by the Catholic church. This place was the property of Pac family and one of them - Stefan Kristap - began significant reconstruction of the church in 1655. In 1670 church has been consecrated. In 1768-1772 another family representative - Antoni and Terezia - carried out the last reconstruction and built two towers near the church.
Jieznas church is one of the earlier examples of the baroque architecture having the features of the so called Vilnius baroque school.
Balcony:
It is difficult to capture the church during summer:
Mild evening in July :)))
Otherwise Jieznas is very ordinary and small township. The remaining older building of undisclosed use (today abandoned) - one of the most interesting buildings in township:
The size of local "municipality" shows that township really not big :)))
Probably most impressive civil building here - chemistry :)))
Stakliškės is even smaller township going next 10 km to the east. For the first time they were mentioned in Teutonic order chronicles in 1375 as Staghelisken and in 1385 as Staklisken. First church built in 1586. Significant reconstruction done in 1663-1674 after devastation of the war in 1654-1655. But modern look church got in 1770-1776.
The church itself:
To photo this church in summer is even more difficult job in summer :)))
Stakliškės has a special enterprise - the single enterprise producing old Lithuanian drink midus (alcohol drink from honey). And here it is the photo of "Stakliškių midus":
Some relict of the old industrial architecture inside:
Probably because of the midus distillery you can find such an example of late 1980s architecture - rare example for such small township (in fact village):
In Stakliškės I found the sign showing the place of the former Jewish cemetery and went to the remnants of them:
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Jieznas is a small township located about 50 km from Kaunas while Stakliškės is even smaller township located about 10 km further to the east from Jieznas. This map shows approximate location of both townships:
Each of them has the monument left from the baroque era - the church.
In Jieznas church is older and in principle more famous. It could be called the monument of the early baroque. Protestant church in Jieznas was built in 1611. This church in 1640 has been captured by the Catholic church. This place was the property of Pac family and one of them - Stefan Kristap - began significant reconstruction of the church in 1655. In 1670 church has been consecrated. In 1768-1772 another family representative - Antoni and Terezia - carried out the last reconstruction and built two towers near the church.
Jieznas church is one of the earlier examples of the baroque architecture having the features of the so called Vilnius baroque school.
Balcony:
It is difficult to capture the church during summer:
Mild evening in July :)))
Otherwise Jieznas is very ordinary and small township. The remaining older building of undisclosed use (today abandoned) - one of the most interesting buildings in township:
The size of local "municipality" shows that township really not big :)))
Probably most impressive civil building here - chemistry :)))
Stakliškės is even smaller township going next 10 km to the east. For the first time they were mentioned in Teutonic order chronicles in 1375 as Staghelisken and in 1385 as Staklisken. First church built in 1586. Significant reconstruction done in 1663-1674 after devastation of the war in 1654-1655. But modern look church got in 1770-1776.
The church itself:
To photo this church in summer is even more difficult job in summer :)))
Stakliškės has a special enterprise - the single enterprise producing old Lithuanian drink midus (alcohol drink from honey). And here it is the photo of "Stakliškių midus":
Some relict of the old industrial architecture inside:
Probably because of the midus distillery you can find such an example of late 1980s architecture - rare example for such small township (in fact village):
In Stakliškės I found the sign showing the place of the former Jewish cemetery and went to the remnants of them:
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