Bružai (Šilutė)
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Šilutė | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 26 ′ N , 21 ° 30 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 26 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
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Bružai ( German Bruißen or Bruiszen ) is a place in the Lithuanian district of Klaipėda (Memel) and belongs to the district of Saugos (Saugen) in the district of Šilutė (Heydekrug) .
Geographical location
Bružai is north of the river Tenne ( Lithuanian Tenenys ), ten kilometers northwest of Šilutė . The Lithuanian KK 141 trunk road from Kaunas to Klaipėda (here a section of the former German Reichsstrasse 132 ) leads past the town to the west. The next train station is Kukorei (Kukoreiten) on the - although not currently operated - railway line Sowetsk – Klaipėda (Tilsit – Memel) .
Place name
The place name has changed several times over the years: Braczen (1683), Barthel Broszien (1736), Bartel Broßin (1785), Braszen, Brußen, Bruißen / Bruiszen (1910). The name suggests that the founder of the village called "Bartel" (Bartholomäus) was a craftsman: the Prussian-Lithuanian word "bružas" means filing, smoothing, rubbing, scrubbing, making smooth.
History
Before 1945, the village then known as Bruissen consisted of just a few small farms. In 1874, the place in the newly built was District Lapienen (: Lapynai today Lithuanian) integrated, the for loop Heydekrug in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 Brussels had 150 inhabitants. At that time the registry office in Laschen (today Lithuanian: Lašai) and the district court in Heydekrug (Šilutė) were responsible for them.
Between 1920 and 1939, Bruißen was part of the Memelland , which was occupied by Lithuania from 1923 to 1939 , and was then "Prussian" again until 1945. However, the place gave up its independence on May 1, 1939 and was incorporated into the municipality of Laschen (Lašai).
After 1945, Brussels was assigned to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and has been part of the Republic of Lithuania since 1991 . 26 residents currently live in the small town. It is now part of the Šilutė Rajong municipality in the Klaipėda District .
church
While today the majority of the population of Bružai is Roman Catholic , before 1945 the inhabitants were almost without exception Protestant . At that time, the village was parish into the parish of the Church of Saugen (the place is called in Lithuanian: Saugos), which had existed since 1844 and belonged to the Heydekrug church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union (between 1926 and 1939 with its own consistory for the Memel region). For the Protestant church members, there is again a reference to the parish in Saugos, which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bruiszen at GenWiki
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Bruißen (2005)
- ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Lapienen
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Heydekrug
- ↑ As of 2011
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 510