Linkmenys | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Lithuania |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Linkmenys |
Coordinates: | 55.3189°N 25.9561°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Ethnographic region |
Subdivision Name1: | Aukštaitija |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Utena County |
Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
Subdivision Name3: | Ignalina District Municipality |
Subdivision Type4: | Eldership |
Subdivision Name4: | Linkmenys eldership |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Population Total: | 134 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Timezone: | EET |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Timezone Dst: | EEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +3 |
Linkmenys is a village located in Ignalina District Municipality in Utena County, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 134 inhabitants.
In Hermann von Wartberge's Chronicon Livoniale it is referred to as Linkmenys Castle, which probably stood on . Around 1500, the local church has been erected. Sigismund 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 annexed by Poland.
During World War II, 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.