Vileišii (~ until 1923 Požeimė) is a village with a very unusual history in that Lithuanian-Latvian region. This estate is located about a kilometer north of Žeimelos, between the road Žeimelos - Ādžuni - Bauska (Bauskė) and a stream named Beržtalis (Latvian Bērstele). That stream is ponded (Baltausi pond).
In Žeimeli there was a community of old people who had their own prayer houses in Akmenėliai and Pažeimei (Vileišiai). The community of old-timers was established when in 1912-1913 the lands of the Glebava (Geručiai) manor owned by the Curonian landowner Anatolii Liven and mortgaged to the bank were sold (that manor is 4 km to the north, he probably also owned the Pažeimes manor).
Originally, the prayer house for the elderly was located in Akmenėliai, south of Žeimel, from 1935. in 1953, prayers were held in the house of a resident of the village of Vileišiai, and in 1953 - in one of the premises of the Vileišiai manor. That community was also scarce between the 1970s and 1980s. disintegrated Recently, there were still about 15 old men in Žeimeli.
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