Telšiai Military Town Military town

The military town occupies the area between the railway and the current Karaliaus Mindaugo and Stoties streets in Telšiai.

At the beginning of the 19th century, after Lithuania was annexed to the Russian Empire in 1795, barracks and other buildings for military purposes were established in the territory of Telšiai. In 1867, it is mentioned that the Telšiai county command was to consist of 151 soldiers. Although the exact locations of the former buildings are not known, it is known that the barracks were located right next to Lake Mastis - historical sources record a complaint that the military kitchen, located right next to the lake, pollutes the water. The barracks of the tsarist period were wooden, of low height, corresponding to typical military architectural projects. They may have been destroyed during the Telšiai fire of 1908, when ¾ of the city burned down. During the interwar period, there were no buildings belonging to the Ministry of National Defence in Telšiai for a long time, until on August 8, 1939, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to allow the Minister of National Defence to approve the contract for the construction of the barracks.

Today, the surviving brick buildings of the military town, built in 1939-1940 in a modernist style, include barracks, a canteen with a kitchen and a club, three brick ammunition depots, and a reinforced concrete food cellar. Some of them have been adapted for modern needs. The wooden warehouses have not survived.

The facility is not adapted for tourism; public, state and private enterprises operate in the buildings.