Kretingalė
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Klaipeda | ||
| Office : | Kretingalė | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 50 ′ N , 21 ° 11 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 936 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | 96044 | ||
| Status: | Town | ||
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Kretingalė ( German German Crottingen ) is a small town (according to miestelis) in the Klaipėda district of the Republic of Lithuania . The place is the center of the administrative district (Seniūnija) Kretingalė and belongs to the Rajong municipality Klaipėda . The Gaußen estate office also belongs to Kretingalė .
location
Kretingalė is located in western Lithuania , 14 km northeast of the Klaipėda parish seat . 7 km northeast of Kretingalė is the (always Lithuanian) city of Kretinga . The short national road 168 from Klaipėda to Kretinga runs through the village. Kretingalė is a train station on the Vilnius – Klaipėda railway line . Since the Peace of Lake Melno , Crottingen has been the border town of the Teutonic Order , Prussian Lithuania and, from 1871, the German Empire to Russia for over 500 years . After the First World War it was in the (French-occupied) Memelland , which was annexed by Lithuania in 1923 and to which Kretingale has belonged since then, except for the period when it once again belonged to the German Reich between 1939 and 1945.
Place name
The name indicates swampy terrain. Nehrungskurisch "kretene" = swampy. The addition “German” was chosen to distinguish it from the place (Lithuanian) Krottingen, according to Kretinga, which was then on the other side of the East Prussian border.
history
Archaeological finds from the Early Bronze Age are documented in Kretingalė. Deutsch Crottingen was founded as a Cologne estate in the 17th century at the latest . There was a church there since 1652. In 1874 the place became an estate district within the district of Crottingen in the Memel district . In 1892 the place got a rail connection to Memel. In 1907 Deutsch Crottingen became a rural municipality. In 1939 the former manor district Adlig Crottingen (according to today Šlikiai ) and the former rural community Standschen ( Stančiai ) belonged to the rural community Deutsch Crottingen.
While it was part of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , Kretingalė was the seat of a district (lit. apylinkė). Since 1995 the place has been the seat of an administrative district. As such, the place got a coat of arms in 2014.
Kretingalė has a secondary school.
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 115 |
| 1970 | 473 |
| 1979 | 796 |
| 1989 | 900 |
| 2001 | 977 |
| 2011 | 936 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church
In 1652 a wooden chapel was built in Deutsch Krottingen, which was given a tower and bells in 1699. In 1741 a new fieldstone church with a wooden tower was built. When it got crooked in a storm in 1801, the upper part was removed and the lower part of the tower was covered with a hood. In 1875 the church received an organ and a massive tower with an octagonal brick top was added.
Pastor
- Johann Lehmann, 1654–1664
- Johann Ludovici, 1664–1671
- Martin Martini, 1671-1679
- Johann Heinrich Griesinger, 1679–1685
- Valentin Dach, 1685–1692
- Michael Gurski, 1692-1700
- Friedrich Behrend, 1700–1705
- Erdmann Haack, 1705-1731
- Gabriel Engel, 1731–1761
- Adjunct: Jacob Preuss, 1749–1761
- Jacob Preuss, 1761–1778
- Jacob Hausendorf, 1779–1788
- Johann Gottfried Ziegler, 1788–1846
- Adjunct: Andreas Rudolf Zippel, 1841–1846
- Adjunct: Friedrich Wilhelm Thiel, 1845–1846
- Friedrich Wilhelm Thiel, 1846-1859
- Cölestin Gotthold Ebel, 1860–1868
- Carl Albrecht Hillenberg, 1869–1881
- August Jussas, 1882–1890
- Administrator: August Wilhelm Hch. Hartung, 1890-1891
- Administrator: Karl Ed. Albert Salewski, 1891–1899
- Karl Ed. Albert Salewski, 1899-
- Wilhelm Atrott, 1934–1938
- Assistant preacher: Bruno Janz, -1941
- Bruno Janz, 1941–1945
In the church records after 1944, Jonas Armonaitis, pastor 1957–1974, and Saulius Varanavičius in 2009 are mentioned.
Sons and daughters of the place
- Charlotte Susa (1898–1976), German actress, born on Gut Gaußen
- Romas Venclovas (* 1960), Lithuanian politician
Kretingalė District
Since 1995 the Kretingalės seniūnija, which is assigned to the Rajongemeinde Klaipėda . In addition to the town of Kretingalė, the administrative district also includes the other town of Plikiai and 43 villages with a total of 4,736 inhabitants (as of 2011). The administrative district is divided into the six subdistricts (lit. Seniūnaitija) Girkalių seniūnaitija, Kalotės seniūnaitija, Karklės seniūnaitija, Kretingalės seniūnaitija, Naujosios Kalotės seniūnaitija and Plikių seniūnaitija. The district includes:
| Place name | German name | Subdistrict |
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| Anaičiai | to Ußnaites | Girkaliai |
| Bendikai | Round Görge | Kalotė |
| Bruzdeilynas | Brusdeilinen | Girkaliai |
| Dargužiai | Dargußen | Karklė |
| Egliškiai | to Eglishk | Kretingalė |
| Gibišėliai | Gibischen-Peter | Girkaliai |
| Girkaliai | Girnkallen-Matz | Girkaliai |
| Grabiai | Digging | Karklė |
| Graudūšiai | Grauduss-Bartel | Girkaliai |
| Grauminė | Grays | Plikiai |
| Kalotė | Collates | Kalotė and New Kalotė |
| Karklė | Karkelbeck | Karklė |
| Katkai | Girngallen-Gedmin | Plikiai |
| Kibelkščiai | Ilgauden Mauserim | Girkaliai |
| Kiokiai | Kiaken | Girkaliai |
| Kopūstai | Clause | Kretingalė |
| Kretingalė | German Crottingen | Kretingalė |
| Kukuliškiai | to Karkelbeck | Karklė |
| Kunkiai | Kunken Görge | Karklė |
| Kuršeliai | Small courses | Plikiai |
| Lankučiai | Lankutten | Girkaliai |
| Letūkai | Klauswaiten | Girkaliai |
| Mediciai | Med thickness | Plikiai |
| Melašiai | Ramutten-Jahn | Girkaliai |
| Nemirseta | too gluttonous | Girkaliai |
| Normantai | Paul-Narmund | Kalotė |
| Pakamoriai | Packamo ears | Plikiai |
| Paupuliai | Paupeln-Peter | Kretingalė |
| Peskojai | Peskos | Kretingalė |
| Pipirai | Pipirrn | Kretingalė |
| Plikiai | Peck | Plikiai |
| Potrai | Patrajans | Kretingalė |
| Raišiai | Raischen-Jettkandt | Girkaliai |
| Sarčiai | Delicate | Kretingalė |
| Skudžiai | Woydussen | Plikiai |
| Stančiai | Standschen | Kretingalė |
| Saipiai | Scheipen-Thoms | Karklė |
| Šimkai | Szimken | Plikiai |
| Šlikiai | Noble Crottingen | Kretingalė |
| Trakiai | Big courses | Plikiai |
| Triušiai | Truschen | Plikiai |
| Vytaučiai | Wittauten | Plikiai |
| Vitiniai | Wittinnen | Kretingalė |
| Zeigiai | Szodeiken-Jonell | Kalotė |
| Žiobriai | Szabern-Wittko | Plikiai |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ census data
- ↑ a b Thiel (1806-1887) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
- ↑ Hillenberg († 1881) was a member of the Corps Littuania .