Former military commandant's office, memorial plaque of General P. Plechavičius
Infrastructure

Near the Mažeikiai railway station stands the building of the former Mažeikiai military commandant's office.

The ceramic brick, historicist style building is associated with the establishment of the independent state of Lithuania in 1919. This building housed the military commandant's office, where Lieutenant General Povilas Plechavičius (1890-1973) worked. In 1919, he was the commandant of the Seda-Mažeikiai war, and from 1921, he was a regiment commander, and in 1927-1929, he was the Chief of the General Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces.

The soldiers of the Mažeikiai city and county commandant's office led by General Povilas Plechavičius had to actively defend themselves from the Bermontites. Realizing the seriousness of the attacks, P. Plechavičius addressed the soldiers of the commandant's office with a special order on October 30, 1919 with the following words: "Soldiers of the Mažeikiai commandant's office! Remember our battles, which we won with our enemies in January and other months. Do not be discouraged and remember that you will not die as long as I am with you. We defeated the enemy when he was a hundred times stronger than us, and now we will defeat those herds that want to strangle our Homeland!" Due to the endless attacks of the Bermontites, the commandant's office was forced to move to Seda on November 4, 1919.

A memorial plaque with a portrait of P. Plechavičius is hung on one of the building's facades.