Perkūnas house

Perkūnas house was built in a similar style as St. Anne's church in Vilnius, this is one of the most original examples of late Gothic architecture in Lithuania. Built during the final days of the 15th century for Hanza merchants. The rich architecture symbolised the economic power of the Hanseatic League and German expansion.There were made a lot of researches and people find out that the first known owner was S.Dulkė. So there was a theory that the house could be built by S. Dulkė wife‘s parents.
In the year 1818, when a custom-house was being built on the southern part of the house, workers accidentally destroyed a wall. They found a 23 centimeter (10.6 inch) height statue. On its head there was a view of Kaunas towers and temples, the legs were crossed and it was holding three fish in his hands.
The figure had raised to doubts: M. Kasauskas thought that the figure symbolized the city of Kaunas and the fish in his hands meant three biggest rivers of Lithuania: the Nemunas, the Neris and the Nevėžis, because they all flow near Kaunas. A historian and romantic Teodoras Narbutas affirmed that the statue represents an old Lithuanian pagan god Perkūnas (it means thunder) and that a long time ago there was a pagan shrine. Though pagans did not build any gothic shrines, german ethnographer Eduardas Gizevijus confirmed that there was an altar in the basement. This version was convincing enough in the 19th century and from then people call the building Perkūnas house.
The house was built in the period of Lithuanian gothic...

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