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Eldership in Dzūkija, Lithuania From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Juodšiliai Eldership (Lithuanian: Juodšilių seniūnija) is an eldership in Lithuania, located in Vilnius District Municipality, south of Vilnius.
Juodšiliai Eldership
Juodšilių seniūnija | |
|---|---|
 Eldership administrative building in Juodšiliai | |
 Location of Juodšiliai Eldership | |
| Country |  Lithuania |
| Ethnographic region | Dzūkija |
| County |  Vilnius County |
| Municipality |  Vilnius District Municipality |
| Administrative centre | Juodšiliai |
| Government | |
| • Elder | Tadeuš Aškalianec |
| Area | |
| • Total | 23.63 km2 (9.12 sq mi) |
| Population (2019)[1] | |
| • Total | 4,671 |
| • Density | 200/km2 (510/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
| Website | https://www.vrsa.lt |
The name Juodšiliai means "the black groves" . The village was named sometime after 1920, and takes its name from the surrounding coniferous forests.[2]
Rudaminėlė, a tributary of Vokė, flows along the northwest border of the eldership.
The settlement appeared relatively recently. Until World War I, the area was a forest (named Juodasis Šilas), which was felled by German soldiers. A railway was laid to transport the timber, and a train station was built nearby.[3]
The cleared space near the railway gave rise to a railroad worker village Reslerava.[3]
The scenic area was favoured by the intelligentsia of Vilnius, and a campsite was built there.[2]
In 1919, a school was opened in the village, and a monastery worked between 1920 and 1939. An orphanage also worked from 1924 to 1946.[2]
The construction of a church was started in 1936, but was halted due to the war. After it, the church building was used to establish a foster home, later a hospital, but a fire in 1991 damaged the building. In 2001, the church was returned to its original purpose, and the church was officially inaugurated in 2016.[2]
9 villages are located in the eldership, the largest of which are Juodšiliai and Valčiūnai.
According to the 2011 census:[4]
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