Plungė

For other uses, see Plunge (disambiguation).

Plungė
City
Aerial view of Plungė
Clock tower of the Plungė Library
Liberty Boulevard with the Independence Monument
Façade of the Plungė Manor and fountain
Flag of Plungė
Flag
Coat of arms of Plungė
Coat of arms
Plungė is located in Lithuania
Plungė
Plungė
Location of Plungė
Coordinates: 55°55′N 21°51′E / 55.917°N 21.850°E / 55.917; 21.850
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionSamogitia
CountyTelšiai County
MunicipalityPlungė district municipality
EldershipPlungė town eldership
Capital ofPlungė district municipality
Plungė town eldership
Plungė rural eldership
First mentioned1567
Granted city rights1792
Population
 (2022)
 • Total
17,252
Demonym(s)Plungian(s) (English),
plungiečiai or plungiškiai (Lithuanian)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Websiteplunge.lt

Plungė (pronunciationⓘ; Samogitian: Plongė; Polish: Płungiany) is a city in Lithuania with 17,252 inhabitants.[1] Plunge is the capital of the Plungė District Municipality which has 33,251 inhabitants (2022).[1][2] Two parts of the city are separated by the Babrungas River and two bridges are built over it.[1]

Plungė is known for Plungė Manor and its park, where the Samogitian Art Museum is located.[1] In the Oginskiai manor park stands the Perkūnas oak natural monument.[1] The Lourdes grotto of Plungė was created in 1905 and attracts visitors.[1] In the center of Plungė stands a monument for the 10th anniversary of regaining the independence of Lithuania and a sculpture of Saint Florian built by the Lithuanian book carrier Kazys Barzdys.[1]

The city has a crab stick factory which exports to many countries in Europe.[3]

History

Lourdes grotto of Plungė in the early 20th century

It is thought that the territory in which Plungė is situated was inhabited in 5th–1st centuries BC. After the Treaty of Melno, county seats were established in the forests of Samogitia. From the 14th century to the middle of the 16th century, Plungė was part of the Gandinga district as an ordinary settlement. Later, the population of Plungė started to grow faster and surpassed the population of Gandinga. In 1567 Plungė was first mentioned as a town. It was located in the Duchy of Samogitia in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania within the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

On January 13, 1792, Plungė was granted Magdeburg rights. From 1806 to 1873 Plungė belonged to Platon Zubov, and later – to the Ogiński family, who built a palace here in 1879.

Commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the death of Vytautas the Great in Plungė in 1930
Railway station in 1930

During the interwar period a gymnasium was established in 1925, and a railway branch-line was built in 1932. In 1933, the current Catholic Church was consecrated. Since the private hospital was founded in 1939, maternity and surgical sections started operations in the city. Lithuanian Jews were active in the town's government and comprised around half of Plungė's inhabitants leading up to The Holocaust in Lithuania.

During the 1941 June Uprising in Lithuania and the German invasion as part of Operation Barbarossa, Plungė was captured by German forces on 25 June 1941.[4] Lithuanian nationalists, led by Jonas Noreika,[5][6] seized control and formed a town administration and police force. German forces killed 60 young Jewish men, accused by the Lithuanians of being a rear guard for the Red Army, shortly after the town's capture. On 26 June 1941, the day after the Germans' arrival in Plungė, Lithuanian forces moved the town's Jews into a makeshift ghetto, while carrying out beatings, torture, murders and forcing Jews to perform heavy labor. On 13 or 15 July in the Plungė massacre, the Lithuanian nationalists transported Jewish men, women and children to ditches near the village of Kausenai where they were shot. Of the 1,700 Jews living in Plungė in 1939, very few survived and often those who were victims of the Soviet deportations from Lithuania prior to the Holocaust.[4] Remembrance sites for the events of 1941 exist in and around the town.[7][8][9] The Jewish holocaust survivor and sculptor Jacob Bunka was one of the town's few Jews to survive the war.

During the interwar period years of the independence of Lithuania Plungė's economic was based on the factory of fibre flax and cotton Kučiskis – Pabedinskiai and also on the activities of Jewish businessmen and agricultural products made by Samogitian farmers.

Soviet Army vehicles in Plungė in 1991, later the Soviet troops were withdrawn from Lithuania until 1993

After World War II and the Soviet occupation, Plungė started to grow rapidly – the city had 7,400 inhabitants in 1950, and by 1990 it had around 23,300 inhabitants. During the years of Soviet occupation, Lithuanians became the majority of the city's inhabitants. According to the Government's Resolution of 1963, Plungė was to become a regional centre with a strong industry. However, these plans didn't come to fruition as it became obvious that the city did not have enough water resources, although some companies were established in Plungė. However, most of these companies bankrupted after the independence of Lithuania was announced.[10]

The coat of arms of Plungė was affirmed by the decree of the President on June 6, 1997.[11] In 2009 Plungė was elected Lithuanian Capital of Culture.[12] Nowadays Plungė is the sixteenth largest city of Lithuania having 22,287 inhabitants.

Name

The origin of the name Plungė is not clear. The most likely theory is that its name comes from the river Paplunga which flowed through the city.[13]

The city's name is Płungiany in Polish, Plongė in Samogitian, and Plungyan (פלונגיאן) in Yiddish. It was also known as Плунгяны (Plungyany) in Russian in the past.[14]

Main sights

Transport

Plungė Railway Station

Highways near the city are:

Plungė has a railway station. Trains going by the route Vilnius–Klaipėda and Radviliškis–Klaipėda stop there.

Sports

Football club "FK Babrungas Plungė" plays in Lithuanian Football Federation's 2 League's Western Zone. The team plays in the Central Stadium of Plungė.

Basketball club "Olimpas Plungė" plays in National Basketball League. The team was established in 1989. In 1997, BC Olimpas played in the Lithuanian Basketball League finals, where they lost to BC Žalgiris Kaunas. Afterwards, the team did not appear in national competitions until 2011. Olimpas Plungė started to play in Regional Basketball League and won gold medals in 2012 and qualified to the National Basketball League. In 2012-2013 National Basketball League's regular season team finished 3rd amongst 18 teams, however it lost the quarter-finals series 2-0 to BC Žalgiris Kaunas 2.[15] Team plays in "SS Žemaitijos Suvenyras" arena, which has a capacity of 200 people.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Lithuania

Plungė is twinned with:[16]

Former twin towns (until 2022):[16]

Famous residents

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Plungė". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  2. ^ "Gyventojai". Plungės rajono savivaldybė (in Lithuanian). Retrieved December 8, 2024.
  3. ^ "Jubiliejinė „Vičiūnų" dovana darbuotojams - miuziklas". LaikrastisPlunge.lt (in Lithuanian). December 2, 2011.
  4. ^ a b The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933–1945, Geoffrey P. Megargee, Martin C. Dean, and Mel Hecker, Volume II, part B, pages 1105.
  5. ^ „Die Mörder werden noch gebraucht“, Der Spiegel, Von Leonid Olschwang, 23 April 1984
  6. ^ She thought her grandfather was a Lithuanian hero. Research leads her to ask, was he a patriot or a Nazi?, Chicago Tribune, Ron Grossman, 14 January 2019
  7. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania: MASS MURDER OF THE JEWS FROM PLUNGĖ". www.holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  8. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania: MASS MURDER OF THE JEWS IN PLUNGĖ CEMETERY". www.holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  9. ^ "Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania: MASS MURDER OF THE JEWS NEAR JOVAIŠIŠKĖ". www.holocaustatlas.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  10. ^ "PlungÄ—s rajono savivaldybÄ—". plunge.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  11. ^ "1312 DÄ—l PlungÄ—s miesto herbo patvirtinimo". e-seimas.lrs.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  12. ^ Domeikaitė, Audrė. "Lietuvos kultūros sostinė 2009 metais bus Plungė (video)". 15min.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  13. ^ "Pradžia". Plungės žinios. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  14. ^ "De Gruyter" (PDF).
  15. ^ "Nacionalinė krepšinio lyga - NKL". www.nklyga.lt. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
  16. ^ a b "Tarptautiniai ryšiai". July 26, 2022.
  17. ^ "Plungė ir Konotopas pasirašė bendradarbiavimo sutartį".
  18. ^ Toldot Anshei Shem. p. 9.
  19. ^ Around the Jewish World Lone Jew in Lithuanian Town Spends Life Preserving the Past, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, 13 June 2002
  20. ^ "Ambassador". uk.mfa.lt. March 5, 2022.
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