"Where high Nemunas slopes Etched in"
When traveling from Kaunas towards Jurbarkas visit the sixteenth century. end. renasansinio style red castle, you get into a 33.5 m high tower, which offers not only beautiful Nemunas arcs images, but on a clear day you can see and a few kilometers towering similar age Panemunė castle. From the castle you drive bicycle path towards Jurbarkas, on the way you will meet pūpsantį Raudonėnų mound, and come to find Kartupėnus Crusader March Menanti Kartupėnų mound. 2 km after driving the highway you will see the seventeenth century. beginning of the Renaissance style of a residential Panemunė castle, by far the most to preserve its architectural authenticity. Part of the castle has been restored. Panaroma will be able to take stock of the tower and the castle halls unfold unique Panemunė castle wall paintings. Whether to continue the eyes really will fall near the road standing in the eighteenth century. Avg. folk architecture of the building, a former inn Siline now Panemuniai Regional Park; there also founded exposition, showing about not so long ago, until the twentieth century. 9 decade prosperous fishing Nemunas. In addition to the folk architecture of the monument is growing centenarian oak grove. Next bicycle trail will lead you to Skirsnemunės, where you can visit a wooden gravel Evangelical Lutheran and St. Skirsnemunė. George's churches. Increasingly closer towards Jurbarkas you pass the full the Nemunas lying on an old fishing village Molynės. We visit Antkalniškių mound, which has so far dates back to the Crusaders and Lithuanian fights for freedom boundary.
Viešvilė Žuvitakis - Fish the way to the spawning grounds PLAY
Viešvilė River is the right tributary of the Nemunas. The river length of 22 km. Great part of the river (about 16 km) is Viešvilė State Nature Reserve and its buffer zone. It's been a valuable salmonid river, had abundant trout population, which is due to the pre-war built on the river ponds (Viešvilė - 4.5 hectares, 2.7 km from the mouth and Gulbinų - 6.7 hectares, 4.2 km from the mouth) with fish impassable dams almost completely disappeared because the fish could not reach above the ponds in the spawning grounds.
In view of the River Fishery value and potential of salmonid fish - trout and other migratory fish species (perch, river lamprey, brown trout) recovery capabilities Viešvilė river dams proposed to build a fish bypass. Fish ladder installation of dams on the river Viešvilė Viešvilė township. and Gulbinų. Jurbarkas. It was scheduled trout restocking and protection program, approved by the Minister of Agriculture and Minister of the Environment Order No. 2003-01-15. 3D-5/14 (Official Gazette., 2003, no. 9-317). The dam has also been included in the Minister of Environment and Minister of Agriculture Order No. 2003-01-16. 27 / 3D-13 on the definition of requirements for environmental protected and protected species migration routes "(Official Gazette., 2003, no. 19-835) approved by the dams to which facilities should be constructed fish migration list.
Under the Water Framework Directive (2000/60 / EC) is to be protected, improved and restored good surface water status in all water bodies. The river must be anthropogenically disturbed leak size and dynamics of the river Integrity, migration of aquatic organisms and sediment transport. Fish migration path restoration and implementation of key international commitments Lithuania - Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (Official Gazette., 2001, no. 50-1742).
Nature Heritage Fund through the United Nations Development Programme and the Global Environment Facility project "Biodiversity conservation Lithuania swamps, has funded two fish passes the technical preparation of building projects and allocated funds for fish culverts Gulbinų pond dam on the river Viešvilė construction. Since the funds available were not sufficient Viešvilė fish ladder installed, Nature Heritage Fund together Jurbarkas weeks. It prepared an additional application for funds from the EU Structural Funds. Jurbarkas. weeks. 2007. He received support for the project, sea trout and other migratory fish migration path restoration Viešvilė river. Its implementation was built Viešvilė fish ladder, purchased equipment for fish scientific monitoring programs. Both fish passes the draft prepared by the design firm Gedilieta (project author Gediminas Lietuvininkas) and successfully implemented UAB Kavesta.
To construct fish passes well with the natural environment. Žuvitakis important not only to restore fish stocks. Since fish migration (spawning) and recreational seasons do not coincide, Viešvilė fish ladder can be used together. Equipped bathing water (synonymous with fish leisure pool) as well as bathers built a waterfall. Recreational conditions improve to provide access trails and green spaces. After the restoration of sea trout migration path to spawn in 10 years it is planned to reach 50% of the potential productivity of the river (500 pcs. Trout), about 250 adult fish. Regenerative Viešvilė fish stocks in the river will be able to organize an attractive trout fishing license, in the district will attract more tourists, promote the development of tourism. Therefore, fish passes will provide long-term social - economic benefits to the local community.
Mound Nemunas upper terrace cape, formed Pieštvės stream. In the northwest mound surrounded Pieštvės stream, from the south - Nemunas Valley of northeastern reaches an adjacent hill. The site almost triangular, elongated east-west direction, 50 m long, 35 m wide in the east. Its eastern end was added 7 m high, 20 m wide, the first flush of an external 9 m high slope descends to 10 m wide and 4 m deep trench 4 meters wide on the bottom (the best preserved in the southeast slope) juosusį and the northern foot of the mound. Ditch on the outside filled the second of 3 m high and 10 m wide dyke, better preserved only in the northern and southeastern parts. Western slope of 6 m below the area is 2 m wide terrace. The slopes are steep, 30 m high in the upper 6-8 meters high in artificial pastatinti. Dimensions: 320 m northeast - southwest direction and 250 m in width.
Eroded mound of plowed fields, the first rampart dug a huge pit area countries - Foxhole. Lying fallow. On the mound from the lower part of the town Seredžius up stairs. The mound dates back to the middle of the first millennium - the fifteenth century. beginning.
Veliuona mounds - mounds and fortifications complex Jurbarkas district municipality territory Veliuona town Nemunas valley slope. The complex - archaeological - historical monument, which consists of Veliuona to the mound , called Gediminas grave, his Papilys, known as Castle Hill or the Hill of Peace and 2.7 km to the west in Veliuona II mound called Pilaitėmis.
Gediminas tomb or Veliuona to the mound by tradition is considered to Veliuona died Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas death place. Research shows there was a wooden castle, which often attacked the Crusaders . [1] Duke Gediminas the mound monument.
Castle Hill has been regarded as a separate mountain. He is separated from Gediminas tomb 17 years. the depth of the moat, its status 30 years. the height of the slope descends to the Nemunas valley, east of the ditch, in the northern Veliuona stream valley. West from the highlands he separated wide about 4 m deep moat. At the top of a large, about 80 m. long and about 40 m. the width of the eastern end of the lot. Its northern edge, tells the past and the western and eastern end was to see the brick foundations of the wall. Parking eroded the twentieth century. the beginning of the planting of the garden. After the research found there may have been a first or lower ward of the mound on his standing in 1412. rebuilt brick Veliuona Castle. There is reason to believe that further to the west - northwest upland adjacent castle was established Papilys, which later built the church and worked in the town. [2]
Pilaitėse or Veliuona II mound 2.65 kilometers west of Veliuona to the mound, archaeologists believe stood 1,337 years. Crusader castle built in two buildings, which is supposed to block Veliuona castle. Judging by the archaeological research, the castle Lithuanian was soon attacked and burned. [3]
Complex belongs to the north and the contents of the earlier start of the second millennium Antkalnės mound , also called the Giants' graves Newcomer, Gystėnų mound.
Smalininkai Jurbarkas region is famous for not only the largest oak alley Lithuania, but also the oldest water measuring stations. This - even 200 years.
It's only the old station in our country, which are authentic observations have survived to this day.
Although the first water meter Smalininkai survived, here stands stone water level measurement of stairs nearby - an observation tower. His wall - markings reminiscent of major flooding. However, water measurement station history began much earlier than the raging these photographs captured verse.
Two centuries on behalf of the King of Prussia, published 73-s water measurement stations and the installation instructions mentioned Smalininkai. The station, installed in 1811. October 1st, to this day remains the most important object.
"Measurements of their research helps to identify potential future didžliulius floods debacle and related disasters," - says hydrologist Assoc. dr. Edward Červinskas.
John Jablonski about the importance of this station wrote that "a large and continuous monitoring station volume is important not only in our country but also the world's hydrological. Lithuanian Hydrometeorology in 1811-the year of the time the Nemunas initiating investigations.
"This water station in Europe is very important, because there are all preserved 200-year period of data and can therefore contribute to a hydraulic regularities" - water station highlights the significance of the ancient technique of the museum manager Justin Stone.
Old observational data were stored in Berlin, later - Lithuania. The register of cultural values included once been famous here in the port.
Before the 7-year-old was carried Smalininkų water measurement station renovated, but the port and the environment have not been sorted out funds. In the future, it is expected to clean up the harbor bed, clean up the cobbled slopes
