Panemunė is an elderate in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas

Kaunas

Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...

, that was formally incorporated into Kaunas in 1931. It is located on the left bank of the Nemunas River

Neman River

Neman or Niemen or Nemunas, is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Curonian Lagoon and then into the Baltic Sea at Klaipėda. It is the northern border between Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast in its lower reaches...

. It occupies 24.78 hectare

Hectare

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s, with 22,140 inhabitants. The elderate encompasses the neighbourhoods of Vaišvydava, Vičiūnai, Panemunė and Rokai.

A vast pine wood occupies a significant area in this neighbourhood. Neorenaissance style Holy Virgin Mary church built in the middle of the 19th century is located in Panemunė elderate.

External links

• Website of Kaunas city Poniemoń (2.) (Panemunė) in the Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland (1887)