In 1908-1909, a gendarmerie station complex was built on the site according to a standard design. The main building housed the police station and a service apartment, while the courtyard contained an outbuilding and a small garden house for storing gardening tools. In the post-war period, the main building housed the headquarters of the NKVD Priekule division, where resistance fighters arrested in the area were interrogated and tortured in the basement below the building. The former garden house became a mortuary, where the bodies of despised partisans were kept. The latter were later buried in the garden in the depths of the plot, or transported and buried in a dugout near the village of Druki. During the Soviet era, the main building housed the Priekule Rural District, and in 2006 the Priekule Museum of the History of the Freedom Struggle and Exile was established in the farmhouse. It contains a lot of valuable material about the struggles of the resistance fighters of the Kęstutis District of the Butigeidis Detachment in Samogitia and Klaipėda Region. The exposition "Exile and Resistance in Klaipėda District" provides visitors with a comprehensive insight into the partisan movement, mass deportations and imprisonments. In the museum's outdoor exposition, you will experience authentic experiences by visiting the exile wagon and the partisan bunker.
Contact:
+370 696 26 175
tremties@gargzdumuziejus.lt
www.gargzdumuziejus.lt
