Budrikai (Klaipėda)
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Klaipeda | ||
| Founded : | 1768 | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 41 ′ N , 21 ° 13 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 24 (2001) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
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Budrikai ( German birch grove, Memel district ) is a village in the Klaipėda district of Lithuania and belongs to the Sendvaris district (with its center in Slengiai ) in the Klaipėda district community .
Geographical location
Budrikai is located six kilometers southeast of the city of Klaipėda (Memel) not far from the Lithuanian national road KK141 . There is no train connection.
history
The village, formerly called Birkenhain , was founded in 1768. Garn Broszien (after 1768), Broszienen (before 1785) and Birckenhayn (after 1785) are also passed down as place names . The place was an estate village and was on 23 January 1864, the village Buddricken Jahn (also: Pawarschen) combined into one district.
In 1874 Birkenhain was incorporated into the district of Buddelkehmen (today Lithuanian: Budelkiemis) and belonged to the Königsberg district within the Königsberg district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
In 1910, 89 residents were registered in Birkenhain. Their number rose to 264 by 1925. At that time and until 1939 the village belonged to the Memelland . It was then reintegrated into the Buddelkehmen district in the Memel district, which was assigned to the Gumbinnen district until 1945 .
In 1945 the place, again called Budrikai, was transferred to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , today it belongs to the Republic of Lithuania and the association of the Rajongemeinde Klaipėda in the administrative district of the same name.
church
Evangelical
The Birkenhains population , which was predominantly Protestant before 1945, was parish in the parish of the St. Nicholas Church (country church, since 1923: St. Jakobus Church, the building was demolished during the Soviet era) of the city of Memel. It belonged to the church district of Memel within the church province of East Prussia (before 1939 with its own regional synodal association Memelland) of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Even today, the village is located in the catchment area of the city of Memel, where a new Protestant congregation has been constituted, which belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
Roman Catholic
The numerically few Catholics in Birkenhain belonged before 1945 to the parish church of the Holy Trinity in Memel, which was assigned to the deanery of the Free Prelature Memel in the Diocese of Warmia . Today the majority of Budrikai's residents are Catholic, their parish church is that in Klaipėda in the Klaipėda deanery, which is part of the Telšiai diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Birkenhain (2005)
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Buddricken-Jahn (2005)
- ↑ Rolf Jehke: District Buddelkehmen / Karlsberg
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Memel
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Stadt- u. District of Memel (lit.Klaipéda). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 511