Smiltynė
Smiltynė (before 1945 German Sandkrug ) is the northernmost place on the Curonian Spit . It is a district of the port city of Klaipėda (German: Memel ) in Lithuania , but separated from it by the Curonian Lagoon , which is about 500 m wide here. There is a ferry service between the districts. At the northern tip of the headland is the Kopgalis fortress, which was built by the Prussians in 1865–1871 . Today the fortress houses the Lithuanian Maritime Museum , with an aquarium and a dolphinarium. The former German name of this part of the spit was " Süderspitze ", which is actually confusing. The name should indicate the southern entrance to the ports of Memel.
The entire northern, Lithuanian part of the headland, the bordering Baltic Sea and parts of the Curonian Lagoon are part of the Curonian Spit National Park . The southern part of the spit is Russian territory of the Kaliningrad Oblast . After the Second World War , Klaipėda and the Curonian Spit were restricted military areas of the Soviet Union . The first tourists were only allowed to come back in 1985. In May 2006 a fire destroyed almost 250 hectares of forest between Smiltynė and Alksnynė. The Klaipėda marathon has been held in Smiltynė since 2016 .
Attractions
The Lithuanian Maritime Museum ( Lithuanian Lietuvos jūrų muziejus ) Other structures are the Smiltynė Marina and the Klaipėda Lighthouse .
literature
- Smiltynė. Tarybų Lietuvos enciklopedija, T. 4 (Simno-Žvorūnė). - Vilnius: Vyriausioji enciklopedijų redakcija, 1988. 48 psl.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 42 ' N , 21 ° 7' E