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Bartninkai is a small town in Marijampolė County, Vilkaviškis District Municipality in southwestern Lithuania. The town is located 17 km south of Vilkaviškis. It is the seat of the Bartninkai Eldership.The town is home to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, a post office, a clinic, the Bartininkai Jonas Basanavičius High School, a library, and the grounds of the former Bartininkai manor. According to the 2011 census, the town has a population of 390 people.
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History
The ruins of the old Bartninkai church (before restoration)
Bartninkai was founded in the second half of the XVI century. In 1649, the village of Bartninkai is recorded having 16 valakas of land. A Catholic church was built in 1663, and a parish was established in 1783 (in 1790 the church was rebuilt of stone masonry, in 1865 towers were added). In 1736 6 families lived in the village. In 1744 Bartninkai was referred to as a town.
From 1781 to the second half of the XIX century there was a parish school. After the November Uprising of 1830-1831, the Tsar gifted Bartninkai to the Imperial Russian Army Officer of Nostitz family, who declared the estate a majorate. 1861-1950 Bartninkai was the center of the parish.
At the end of 1905, the people of the town drove out the Russian authorities. In 1923 there were 72 households. During World War II the town was almost entirely destroyed. The church was heavily bombed (in 1950 a new wooden church was built next to the ruins of the old one). During the soviet occupation, Bartninkai was a town of Kolkhoz farm. In 1999 the coat of arms of Bartininkai was adopted by a decree of the President of the Republic of Lithuania. [2]
References
^"2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 16, 2017.
^Miškinis, Algimantas. "Bartninkai". vle.lt. LNB Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos centras. Retrieved 16 July 2024.
