Linkava

Linkuva is an old settlement in the lands once inhabited by the Semigallians of northern Lithuania. It appears in the Livonian chronicle of Hermann of Wartberge in 1371, during a period of raids by the Livonian Order. Kotryna Mykolienė, owner of the manor, built a church in 1500; it later came into Calvinist hands. A parish school operated in the later sixteenth century, and a Carmelite monastery was established in 1634. The monastery remained until its closure in 1832.