Linkmenys

Linkmenys (Polish: Łyngmiany) is a village located in Ignalina District Municipality in Utena County, in eastern Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 134 inhabitants.

Linkmenys
Village
Holy Trinity church
Linkmenys Location of Linkmenys
Coordinates: 55°19′08″N 25°57′22″E
Country	Lithuania
Ethnographic region	Aukštaitija
County	Utena County
Municipality	Ignalina District Municipality
Eldership	Linkmenys eldership
Population  (2011)
• Total	134
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

History

Polish border crossing at Łyngmiany in 1935

In Hermann von Wartberge's Chronicon Livoniale it is referred to as Linkmenys Castle, which probably stood on Ginučiai Hillfort [lt]. Around 1500, the local church has been erected. Sigismund II Augustus had a manor and a town which belonged to the manor in Linkmenys.

In 1922, 2 years after Polish–Lithuanian War, the Polish soldiers in Lithuanian school of Linkmenys butted the Vytis as "foreign state sign".^[1]

During the interwar period, the village was split by the Polish-Lithuanian demarcation line, however the bigger part of the village was part of Poland. Administratively, it was located in Święciany County in Wilno Voivodeship.

World War II

During World War II, it was first invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union until 1941, and then by Nazi Germany until 1944. In mid-July 1941, 70 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in a mass execution perpetrated by an Einsatzgruppen and Lithuanian collaborators.^[2] A memorial stone is erected at the site of the massacre.

Notable people

• Ignacy Oziewicz (1887–1966), Polish military officer