Kintai
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Šilutė | ||
| Office : | Kintai | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 25 ′ N , 21 ° 16 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 616 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Status: | Town | ||
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Kintai ( German Kinten ) is a town (Miestelis) in the Klaipėda district of the Republic of Lithuania . The place is the center of the administrative district (Seniūnija) Kintai and belongs to the Rajongemeinde Šilutė .
location
Kintai is located in the southwest of Lithuania , in the former Prussian Lithuania , on the Curonian Lagoon about 15 km northwest of the township seat of Šilutė . Roads from Šilutė, Ventė and Priekulė lead to Kintai .
history
In 1874 Kinten (apparently) became the seat of an administrative district in the Heydekrug district .
After its incorporation into the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , Kintai was the seat of a municipality (lit. valsčius) until 1950 and was the seat of a district (lit. apylinkė) from 1950 to 1988. From 1988 to 1995 the place belonged to the Saugos district . Since 1995, Kintai has been the seat of an administrative district. As such, the place got a coat of arms in 2011.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 473 |
| 1959 | 493 |
| 1970 | 807 |
| 1979 | 893 |
| 1989 | 1023 |
| 2001 | 833 |
| 2011 | 616 |
school
There is a secondary school in Kintai.
church
The former Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kintai, a plastered brick building without a tower built in 1705, was handed over to the Catholic community in 1990. The Evangelical Lutheran congregation has been using its rectory as a church since then.
Personalities
- Martynas Anysas (1895–1974), Lithuanian lawyer, historian and diplomat
- August Heinrici (1812–1881), German pastor, worked in Kinten from 1847 to 1850
- Vydūnas (civil Wilhelm Storost, lit. Vilius Storosta) (1868–1953), Prussian-Lithuanian teacher, poet, philosopher, humanist and theosophist, worked in Kinten from 1888 to 1892 as a primary school teacher
Kintai County
The Kintų seniūnija, which belongs to the Rajong municipality of Šilutė , has existed since 1995 . In addition to the town of Kintai, 24 villages with a total of 1,757 inhabitants on an area of 155.5 km² are united in the administrative district (as of 2011). Since 2009 the administrative district has been divided into eight subdistricts (lit. The district includes:
| Place name | German name | Subdistrict |
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| Aukštumalai | Augstumal | Rūgaliai |
| Blymaciai | Blooms | Kiškiai |
| Bložiai | Blasts | Stankiškiai |
| Kalviškiai | to kiosks | Mockiai |
| Kintai | Kinten | Kintai |
| Kiosiai | Kiosks | Mockiai |
| Kiškiai | Kischken | Kiškiai |
| Lamsočiai | Lampsalen | Mockiai |
| Minija | Minge | Minija |
| Mockiai | Matzos | Mockiai |
| Muižė | Feilenhof | Stankiškiai |
| Paurai | Pauses | Kiškiai |
| Povilai | Paweln | Kintai |
| Prycmai | Pretzmen | Kiškiai |
| Raudžiai | Raudszen | Kiškiai |
| Rūgaliai | New bullets | Rūgaliai |
| Sakūčiai | Michel Sakuten | Sakūčiai |
| Stankiškiai | Stankishken | Stankiškiai |
| Suvernai | Suwehnen | Stankiškiai |
| Šyšgiriai | Schieszgirren | Rūgaliai |
| Šturmai | Storms | Ventė |
| Uogaliai | Ogles | Kintai |
| Vabalai | Wobble | Rūgaliai |
| Ventė | Windenburg | Ventė |
| Žyniai | Appear | Sakūčiai |
Web links
- Kinten on http://wiki-de.genealogy.net
- Kintai Middle School website
- Website of the Vydūnas Cultural Center in Kintai
Individual evidence
- ↑ census data