Preila
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Municipality : | Neringa | ||
| Founded : | 1843 | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 22 ′ N , 21 ° 4 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 205 | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Status: | Locality | ||
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Preila ( German Preil ) is a village on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania and belongs to the municipality of Neringa .
geography
Preila is in the middle of the Lithuanian section of the spit directly on the lagoon and belongs to the municipality of Neringa . The village lies on the old post road, 10 km from Nida (Nida) and about 40 km from Klaipeda (Memel) away.
history
The place was created around 1850 by the settlement of fishing families from Neegeln ( nehrungskurisch : "agila": fir needle; "egile": fir; "negile": nail) and Karwaiten (Kurisch "karve": cow). These villages, in the immediate vicinity of Preila (meaning "new settlement" from Latvian "preilis": the migrant, "prei-eilis": the newcomer), had been buried under the sand of shifting dunes. It was not until the end of the 19th century that the sand was fortified by planting under the direction of Wilhelm Franz Epha (1828–1904), the royal Prussian dune plantation inspector.
German until 1919, after the First World War , Preil belonged to Lithuania as part of the Memelland from 1923 to 1939, from 1939 to 1945 again to Germany and after the Second World War from 1945 under the name Preila to the Lithuanian Soviet Republic, which restored its sovereignty in 1991.
In German times the place last had about 160 inhabitants. They spoke Curonian and German among themselves . There was a one-class school, built in 1907. The Preiler lived from fishing. In addition, rooms were rented to summer guests. There was the “Preiler Elch” hotel, a popular destination for hikes from Nidden (now Lithuanian: Nida) and Schwarzort (Juodkrantė).
Today Preila has around 205 permanent residents including some German families. The language is Lithuanian.
church
The majority population of Preil before 1945 was of Protestant denomination and belonged to the parish of Nidden (now Lithuanian: Nida) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Even today Preila is in the catchment area of the church in Nida as a parish in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
economy
Besides fishing, the most important industry in Preila is tourism. In addition to private room rental, a hotel and two restaurants complete the offer for guests. There are hiking trails on the wooded dunes (Vecekrugo, German Wetzekrug 67 m), cycle paths to the neighboring towns of Nida and Pervalka (Perwelk) (Negyvosios Kopos, German dead dunes) and to the nearby Baltic Sea beach.
traffic
Several buses run daily to Nida and Klaipėda , from where bus and train connections etc. a. to Kaunas , Vilnius and Riga . The Palanga airport is 60 km away.
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Individual evidence
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Alksnynė (Erlenhorst) | Juodkrantė (Schwarzort) | Nida (Nidden) | Pervalka (Perwelk) | Preila (Preil)
Lost place: Karvaičiai (Karwaiten)