Kretingalė

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Kretingalė
coat of arms
coat of arms
State : Lithuania Lithuania
District : Klaipeda
Rajong municipality : Klaipeda
Office : Kretingalė
Coordinates : 55 ° 50 ′  N , 21 ° 11 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 50 ′  N , 21 ° 11 ′  E
 
Inhabitants (place) : 936 (2011)
Time zone : EET (UTC + 2)
Postal code : 96044
 
Status: Town
 
Kretingalė (Lithuania)
Kretingalė
Kretingalė

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

City panorama of Kretingalė
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kretingalė

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

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:

The Kretingalė County in the northwest of the Klaipėda district
Place name German name Subdistrict
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

Commons : Kretingalė  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. census data
  2. a b Thiel (1806-1887) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
  3. Hillenberg († 1881) was a member of the Corps Littuania .