Lumpėnai
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| District : | Tauragė | ||
| Municipality : | Pagėgiai | ||
| Office : | Lumpėnai | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 6 ′ N , 22 ° 2 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 533 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Status: | Village | ||
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Lumpėnai ( German (large) Lompönen ) is a village in the Tauragė district of Lithuania . The place is the center of the administrative district (Seniūnija) Lumpėnai and belongs to the municipality Pagėgiai .
Geographical location
Lumpėnai is located in the southwest of Lithuania , in the former Memelland , about nine kilometers east of the municipality of Pagėgiai . National road 141 , which connects Kaunas with Klaipėda , runs through the village .
Place name
The name indicates boggy subsoil. Compare with Lomse (Königsberg), Prussian "lumpe" = dirty swampy place, swamp that trembles when stepped on.
history
The place has existed since at least the 15th century and was (probably) seat of an administrative district in the (rural) district of Tilsit since 1874 . In 1920 it was incorporated into the Pogegen district (lit. Pagėgių apskritis). From 1939 to 1944, the neighboring town of Bardehnen was also incorporated into Lompönen. During this time the place was in the district of Tilsit-Ragnit .
After incorporation into the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , Lumpėnai belonged to the municipality (lit. valsčius) Vilkyškiai in the Pagėgiai district (lit. Pagėgių apskritis) until 1950 . In 1950 Lumpėnai became the seat of a district (lit. apylinkė), which was added to the newly created district of Rambynas in 1963 . This was now in the Šilutė district . In 1986 Lumpėnai (apparently) came to the Vilkyškiai district, which in 1995 was converted into an administrative district in the Pagėgiai municipality . Lumpėnai has had its own administrative district since 2001 and was given a coat of arms for it in 2014.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1910 | 568 |
| 1959 | 402 |
| 1970 | 510 |
| 1979 | 544 |
| 1989 | 543 |
| 2001 | 640 |
| 2011 | 533 |
school
There is a secondary school in Lumpėnai named after Enzys Jagomastas, who was born here and one of the signatories of the Tilsit Act .
Lumpėnai District
The Lumpėnų seniūnija, which is assigned to the municipality of Pagėgiai , has existed since 2001 . The administrative district includes 13 villages with a total of 1,040 inhabitants on an area of 62 km²:
| Place name | German name | Place name | German name | |
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| Bardinai | Bar stretching | Pempynė | Wahlenthal | |
| Bitėnai | Bit tendon shoulder arms | Sodėnai | Tendons | |
| Kerkutviečiai | Kerkutwethen | Strazdai | Strasden | |
| Krakeniškiai | Krakonischken | Strazdeliai | Ernstthal I | |
| Lumpėnai | Lomponen | Šakininkai | Schakeningken | |
| Nepertlaukiai | Neppertlauken | Trakininkai | Tracking | |
| Palumpiai | Polompen |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ census data