Lindikai (Pagegiai)
| Lindikai | |||
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 Lithuania
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| District : | Tauragė | ||
| Municipality : | Pagėgiai | ||
| Office : | Vilkyškiai (Willkischken) | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 8 ' N , 22 ° 14' E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 8 (2001) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Status: | Village | ||
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Lindikai ( German Lindicken ) is a small town in Lithuania , in the Tauragė (Memel) district . It belongs to the District Vilkyškiai (Willkischken) in the pagėgiai municipality (Pogegen) .
geography
Lindikai is located seven kilometers northeast of Vilkyškiai and two kilometers northwest of Žukai (Szugken) in the north of the KK 141 Klaipėda - Kaunas highway .
history
That in the German language Lindicken village called in 1874 in the District Szugken (Lithuanian today: Zukai) incorporated. It belonged to the district of Ragnit until 1920 and from 1939 to 1945 to the district of Tilsit-Ragnit in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia and was assigned to the district of Pogegen in Memelland between 1920 and 1939 . Lindicken had 36 inhabitants in 1905, 39 in 1910 and 55 in 1925.
In 1945 the village came to the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (LSSR) and since 1991 to the Lithuanian Republic . Here it is incorporated into the Pagėgiai municipality in the Tauragė district.
Before 1945, Lindicken with its mostly Protestant population belonged to the parish of the Church of Szugken in the parish of Pogegen (Lithuanian: Pagėgiai) within the church province of East Prussia (between 1923 and 1939 with a separate consistory for the Memelland) of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the population is almost without exception Roman Catholic . Evangelical church members belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
Individual evidence
- ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical register of places East Prussia: Lindicken
- ^ Rolf Jehke: District Szugken
- ↑ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Ragnit district ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 513
