Rezgiai

55°25′45″N 23°39′25″E / 55.42917°N 23.65694°E / 55.42917; 23.65694Country LithuaniaCounty Kaunas CountyMunicipalityKėdainiai district municipalityEldershipKrakės EldershipPopulation • Total0Time zoneUTC+2 (EET) • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Rezgiai (formerly Russian: Резги, Polish: Rezgi, Rezgie)^[1] is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, in Kaunas County, in central Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, the village was uninhabited.^[2] It is located 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) from Krakės, 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from Plinkaigalis, by the Šušvė river and its tributary the Pušynėlis rivulet (with a pond on it). There is a cemetery with a monument to the January Uprising resurgents. Also a lime tree alley of the former manor is still here.

History

At the end of the 19th century there were three Rezgiai estates by the Šušvė. There was a wooden chapel of St. Eustatius (built in 1759), distillery and water mill. Later there were two estates, one of them belonged to the Jelenskiai, another to the Višnevskiai.^[1]

Demography

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1902 80 —     1923 17 −7.11% 1959 15 −0.35% 1970 3 −13.61%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1979 0 −100.00% 1989 0 0.00% 2001 0 0.00% 2011 0 0.00%
Source: 1902, 1923, 1959 & 1970, 1979, 1989, 2001, 2011

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