Neringa

Neringa
coat of arms
State :	Lithuania
District :	Klaipeda
Municipality :	Neringa
Founded :	1961
Coordinates :	55 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 7'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 33 '  N , 21 ° 7'  E
Height :	2 m
Area (place) :	90  km²
Inhabitants (place) :	3,621 (2009)
Population density :	40 inhabitants per km²
Time zone :	EET (UTC + 2)
Telephone code :	(+370) 469
Postal code :	93012
Status:	Health resort in the municipality of Neringa
Structure :	2 city offices
Mayor :	Darius Jasaitis ( LSDP )
Website :	www.neringa.lt

Spit Curonian language area 1649

See also: Neringa (first name)

Neringa ( listen ^{? / I} ; German " Nehrung " ) is a town in the municipality of Neringa , in Lithuania , south of Klaipėda . The center of the self-governing community consists of the villages on the Curonian Spit . It is a health resort .  

Surname

Apr. / n-kur. "neria, nerge, neringia": land that rises and falls like a swimmer. According to legend, the name goes back to a giantess who built a wall of sand to protect the coast.

history

Neringa is one of the original südkurischen landscapes Pilsaten and Lamotina . As early as 1569, there was a "muddle of languages" on the spit between German (authorities, church, school), Lithuanian , Latvian-Curonian ( Nehrungskurisch ) and Prussian . Curonian was essentially the language of the fishermen. The referendum of 1897 showed that of the 1644 inhabitants of the main towns 994 (around 60%) used the Nehrung-Kurische language, among fishermen even 1064 (around 65%), as it was also a technical language. Because the churches no longer offered Curonian church services, preaching was in Lithuanian, so that almost all of the cures could understand and speak Lithuanian.

When the Spit came to Lithuania in 1923, the residents of the Spit had citizenship problems: only a few opted for Lithuanian membership, many emigrated to Germany, others continued to live in their villages as Germans abroad . In 1956 147 families were interviewed, and the result was a majority of Greater Lithuanians (59%) and Russians (21%). Only 22 families (15%) of the autochthonous population were left.

In 1961 the formerly independent localities of the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit were merged to form the unified municipality of Neringa. The administrative headquarters are in Nida . Until the end of the Second World War , the spit belonged to Germany from 1252 (except for the years 1923 to 1938). Today in Neringa, in addition to the Lithuanian majority, members of the Russian minority live in Lithuania. Neringa is one of the most scenic health resorts in the Baltic Sea region.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of Neringa was confirmed in 1968. The symbols in the upper part of the coat of arms are symbols of the old black and white spa pennants (clockwise from top left: Nidden, Preil, Karwaiten, Perwelk, Schwarzort and Purwin). In the lower part of the coat of arms in blue a silver letter N for the place name. The coat of arms was designed by the architect Ricardas Kristapavicius.

economy

Tourism is important on the spit, on the Baltic Sea and on the Curonian Lagoon .

Transportation

In the summer months there are hourly buses on the Nida-Juodkrante-Smyltine / Klaipėda route. Several Lithuanian long-distance bus companies also operate regular connections to Vilnius and Kaunas.

The two minibus lines in Nida were discontinued in 2014 for economic reasons without replacement.

Town twinning

Neringa maintains a town partnership with the German city of Fehmarn on the Baltic Sea island of the same name, which belongs to Schleswig-Holstein , and with the Polish city ​​of Łeba .

literature

• Arūnė Arbušauskaitė. Some aspects of the national self-assessment of the old resident population of the Curonian Spit after 1945, in Annaberger Annalen 1994

Web links

Commons : Neringa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Annaberger Annalen, yearbook 1994 (PDF file; 215 kB)
• City administration's cultural and tourism information center

proof

1. ↑ Mykolas Sluckis: Neringa and Naglis or the fairy tale of the giants who did not want to become king . Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 1971.
2. ↑ Lithuania. The Curonian Spit . WDR . 2017.