Kėdainiai district municipality
Kėdainiai () is one of the oldest List of cities in Lithuania, cities in Lithuania. It is located north of Lithuania's second largest city Kaunas on the banks of the Nevėžis River. Kėdainiai were first mentioned in the 1372 Livonian Chronicle ...
, in
Kaunas County
Kaunas County () is one of ten counties of Lithuania. It is in the centre of the country, and its Capital (political), capital is Kaunas. On 1 July 2010, the county administration was abolished.
Symbols
The county's coat of arms can be blazoned ...
, in central
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
. According to the 2011 census, the village had a population of 18 people. It is located from Beinaičiai, by the Vaiskulis rivulet. There is a wooden chapel (built in 1817) in the cemetery of Juciūnai, also two
roofed pole
Roofed pole or roofed pillar (, plural: ''stogastulpiai'', from ''stogas'' – 'roof' and ''stulpas'' – 'pole, pillar') is a traditional Lithuanian wooden shrine. They may have anywhere between one and three layers of stylized roofs. Roofed pole ...
s monuments are located in the village.
History
Juciūnai has been known since 1604. In the 19th century there was Juciūnai village and manor (later a ''
folwark
''Folwark'' is a Polish word derived from the German ''Vorwerk''. A Folwark or Vorwerk is an agricultural estate or a separate branch operation of such an estate, historically a serfdom-based farm and agricultural enterprise (a type of latif ...