Origin of the name
Kulautuva
Local residents link the name of the town with the word beetle (lith. kultuvė).
It is said that in ancient times there were no permanent residents in
Kulautuva, just from the neighbouring villages were coming women to wash their
clothes next to the Nemunas River. They were beating the beetles so loudly that
the sound was spreading widely. Even the people who lived on the other side of
the Nemunas River heard it. They used to say: “The beetles are washing the
clothes again”. From that came the name of the settlement – Kulautuva.
The sculpture “Kultuvė” (eng. “Beetle”) close to Kulautuva region (the author – Ž.Karkauskas
Some of the researchers think that the name of the town came from the
surname of the noblemen – Kolotauskai - who lived there in the 18th –the
beginning of the 19th centuries.
The others think that the
name of the settlement came from a Lithuanian verb „kūlauti“ which means to
catch fishes under the ice beating them with the poles.
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