Verdainė
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| District : | Klaipeda | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Šilutė | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 20 ′ N , 21 ° 31 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 53 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | 66131 | ||
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Verdainė ( German Werden ) is a village in the Klaipėda District , Lithuania . It belongs to the Šilutė district within the Šilutė Rajong municipality .
Geographical location
Verdainė is located one kilometer east of the town of Šilutė ( Heydekrug ) on the Lithuanian national road KK 141 , which leads from Klaipėda to Kaunas . The KK 165 coming from Žemaičių Naumiestis ends in town . The nearest train station is Šilutė on the Sowetsk – Klaipėda ( Tilsit – Memel ) line, which is not in operation. Before 1945, the place then called Werden was itself a train station on the Heydekrug – Kolleschen (Šilutė – Kulėšai) small railroad , which is no longer in operation.
history
Already before 1540 the later church village called Werdenn (1713: Werdenos , afterwards: Werden ) was founded. In 1719 it was mentioned as a Köllmisches Gut that belonged to a Balthasar Karren. In 1785 it was called a royal village with a mill.
On April 29, 1874, the Heydekrug district was established and Werden incorporated. He belonged to the circle Heydekrug in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1897 the neighboring towns of Weszeiten and Neu Hermannlöhlen, and later Werdenberg, were incorporated into Werden. In 1910 a total of 272 residents were registered here.
Between 1920 and 1939 Verdainė was part of the Memel area before it was again part of Prussia for a few years. Werden was incorporated into the municipality of Heydekrug on May 1, 1939.
In 1945 the independent village was incorporated into the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic . Until 1995 it was part of the Jonaičiai (Jonaten) district and even formed its center from 1968 to 1973. Integrated into the Jonaičiai district between 1995 and 1997, the village with its current population of 53 has been part of the Šilutė district in the Šilutė district in the Klaipėda district since 1997 .
church
Church building
Evangelical church in Werden was - not as the first church - a brick building with a small gable tower since 1847 . It stood on the main thoroughfare and survived the wars. After 1945, however, it deteriorated due to its misuse as a factory.
Parish
The Protestant parish of Werden was founded in 1621. With a total of 5,700 parishioners in 1925, who lived in more than 20 parish towns, it belonged to the Heydekrug parish in the church province of East Prussia (between 1920 and 1939 in the Memelland Synodal Association ) of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Today Verdainė is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Šilutė , a parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Become at Gen-wiki
- ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Werden (2005)
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Heydekrug district
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Heydekrug
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 100–101, figs. 435–437
- ↑ The parish of Werden 1733
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 511