Leitgiriai
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Šilutė | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 14 ′ N , 21 ° 35 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 123 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
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Leitgiriai ( German Leitgirren , Russian Лейтгирияй ) is a village in the Lithuanian district of Klaipėda (Memel) and belongs to the district of Juknaičiai (Jugnaten) in the district of Šilutė (Heydekrug) .
Geographical location
Leigiriai is located on the Leitė (Leithe) stream , eight kilometers southeast of Juknaičiai . A side road runs through the village, the KK 141 trunk road ( Kaunas - Klaipėda , section of the former German Reichsstraße 132 ) with the former Didieji Šilininkai (Groß Schilleningken , no longer existing) on the side road from Rusnė (Ruß) to Plaškiai (Plaschken ) connects. A train connection via the Juknaičiai station on the Sowetsk – Klaipėda line no longer exists today.
Place name
The name of the village suggests “moist forest” - corresponding to the Prussian word “leit” for “pouring” and the Lithuanian word “giriai” for “forest”.
history
The small place with the previous place names Leidgirren (before 1736), Groß Leidgirren (after 1785), Groß und Klein Leitgirren (until 1818) and Leitgirren consisted of the village and a 500 meter north located estate . It belonged to the former District Heinrichsfelde (Lithuanian: Andruliai, the place no longer exists), and until 1920 the county lowlands , then to county Heydekrug in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia and thus the January 1920 to March 1939 from the German Reich severed Memelgebiet .
In 1910 there were 278 inhabitants registered in Leitgirren. Their number sank to 243 by 1925 and was only 171 in 1939. Between 1939 and 1945 belonging to the East Prussian Elchniederung district , Leitgirren came to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and from 1991 to the Republic of Lithuania .
Today in Leigiriai place 123 inhabitants live. It belongs to the Šilutė Rajong community in the Klaipėda district .
church
With its predominantly Protestant population, Leitgirren was parish in the parish of the Kaukehmen Church (the place was called Kuckerneese between 1938 and 1946 , since 1946 in Russian: Jasnoje ), which belonged to the Niederung (Elchniederung) church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Leitgiriai is in the territory of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Šilutė (Parish Heydekrug ) within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
References
- ↑ Leitgirren at wiki-de
- ↑ a b Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia: Leitgirren (2005)
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Heinrichsfelde district
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Niederung district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Heydekrug district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).