Norviliškės

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Norviliškės is a small village in the so-called Dieveniškės appendix, Šalčininkai district municipality, Lithuania. It is located about 12 km northeast from Dieveniškės almost on the border with Belarus. In 1986 it had 58 residents ^[1], and 24 residents in 2001.

The Norviliškės Manor is first mentioned in 1586. In 1617 the owners devised part of the real estate land to Franciscans. Around 1745 they built a monastery and a church in Renaissance style. The monastery was reconstructed at the end of the 18th century by Kazimieras Kaminskis.^[2] After the Rebellion of 1831, Russian authorities closed the monastery and turned it into barracks for soldiers, and later to a boarding school for girls. The Church of St. Mary Compassionate Mother was closed at the same time as the monastery. A new wooden church was built in 1929.

For a long time the former manor stood abandoned. In 2005, reconstruction was started by an enterprenour Giedrius Klimkevičius from Vilnius. The project is supported by funds from the PHARE program. The hopes are that the Norviliškės Castle will become a tourist attraction. It offers hosting for business conferences or weddings, hunting, shooting practices, and other activities.

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^ (Lithuanian) "Norviliškės". Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija III: 221. (1987). Ed. Jonas Zinkus, et. al. Vilnius, Lithuania: Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija.
^ (Lithuanian) (1994) Klemensas Čerbulėnas, et. al: Lietuvos architektūros istorija: Nuo XVII a. pradžios iki XIX a. vidurio, Vol. II, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla, 292. ISBN 5-420-00583-3.

General

(Lithuanian) Semaška, Algimantas (2006). Kelionių vadovas po Lietuvą: 1000 lankytinų vietovių norintiems geriau pažinti gimtąjį kraštą, 4th ed., Vilnius: Algimantas, 386. ISBN 9986-506-90-4.