Butkai (Klaipėda)
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 Lithuania
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Klaipeda | ||
| Office : | Priekulė | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 36 ′ N , 21 ° 19 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 51 (2001) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
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Butkai ( German Buttken ) is a village in the Lithuanian district of Klaipėda (Memel) and belongs to the district ( Lithuanian Seniūnija ) Priekulė (Prökuls) in the district of Klaipėda .
Geographical location
Butkai is located in western Lithuania east of the river Minija ( German Minge ), 17 kilometers southeast of the district town of Klaipėda .
Place name
The name seems to refer to a small (disparaged) property. The alternative name Martin Mantrum describes the character of Martin.
history
The small village of Martin Mantrum or Mantrum Martin (before 1736). Martin Mantram (around 1785), Butken (1912) and Buttken (after 1912) consisted of several large and small farms at the time. As of the June 4, 1874 District Aglohnen Rolf Jehke: ( lithuanian Agluonėnai was) formed Buttken came as one of the 20 incorporated villages to do so. The county was part of the circle Memel in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia . The responsible registry office was the one in Sakuten ( Lithuanian Sakūtėliai ) until 1907 , then that in Prökuls ( Lithuanian Priekulė ).
On October 20, 1894, the rural communities of Buttken and Moiszeningken (no longer existent) merged to form the new rural community of Buttken. In 1910 it had 121 inhabitants.
On January 10, 1920, the district of Aglohnen was ceded to the Memel region , which was occupied by Lithuania from 1923. On March 22, 1939, the district of Aglohnen returned to the German Reich, and on May 1, 1939 Buttken gave up its independence by merging with the communities of Rooken ( Lithuanian Rokai ) and Ziauken ( Lithuanian Žiaukos ) to form the new rural community of Rooken.
Today the village called "Butkai" in Lithuanian is part of the Priekulė district within the Klaipėda Rajong municipality in the administrative district of the same name .
church
Evangelical
Most of the population of Buttken belonged to the Protestant church before 1945 . The village was parish in the parish of Prökuls in the church district of Memel within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The reference to the former parish still exists today, but the church now belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania . The former cemetery of Buttken in the former Klooschen state forest is still there today and contains some gravestones from German times.
Catholic
On the Catholic side , the Buttken population was oriented towards the parish church in Memel before 1945 , which belonged to the Diocese of Warmia and the Free Prelature of Memel. Today Klaipėda is still the responsible parish, now part of the Telšiai diocese ( German Telschen ) of the Roman Catholic Church in Lithuania .
traffic
Street
Butkai is conveniently located on a side road that branches off the KK 141 (Kaunas – Klaipėda) road at Priekulė ( German Prökuls ) and leads north to Ketvergiai ( German Kettwerge ).
rails
Until 1996 and 2011, Butkai was connected to the railway station Dituva ( German Dittauen ) on the Sowetsk – Klaipėda (Tilsit – Memel) line. Today the rail connection is missing.
air
It is only a few minutes by car to the nearest airport, Klaipėda .
Individual evidence
- ^ Buttken at GenWiki
- ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Buttken (2005)
- ^ Aglohnen district
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district of Memel
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 512