Palanga

Listen to Palanga / i ( altkurisch pa - langa: the quagmire; German Polangen, Polish Połąga ) ™ is a seaside resort in the südkurischen landscape Megowe in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea some 20 km north of the district capital of Klaipėda (German Memel ) and about 300 km north-west the Lithuanian capital Vilnius. To the north, there are less than 20 km from the Latvian border.

History

The place came in 1253 with the German Order. 1435 Lithuanians conquered the area. Palanga has been the center of a Starostei and offered over the centuries the Lithuanian access to the Baltic single. The port was created in the church today part šventoji. The Swedes made ​​in 1705 during the Great Northern War, a victory here. 1819 came Palanga within the Russian Empire to the governorate Kurland. When the Polish uprising in 1831, the town was burnt down partially. After the emergence of the Baltic states in 1920 was returned to Palanga Lithuania in the course of a border adjustment with Latvia.

Administrative divisions / Geography

Palanga has the status of a separate self-governing municipality in the district of Klaipėda

The administrative structure of the municipality is asymmetric: while the city Palanga is managed directly by the municipality, subject to the touristy šventoji and the place Būtingė the Seniunija ( " District " ) šventoji. The place šventoji has a long, occupied by prehistoric finds history. In Būtingė a Ölverladeterminal is operated.

Culture

2013 is the cultural capital of Lithuania Palanga.

Attractions

Palanga is one of Neringa next to the centers of the Lithuanian tourism - with hotels, campsites, a long beach promenade with pier and an airport. Until 2005 there was a daily connection between Hamburg and Palanga, which was operated by Air Lithuania. Air Lithuania announced in November 2005 bankruptcy. There are connections to Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Malmö, etc.

  • The hut in 1897 after a design by the Berlin architect Franz Schwechten in neoclassical style, former palace of Count Feliks Tyszkiewicz the Amber Museum since 1963 housed the one from 1897, designed by the French gardeners Édouard François André and his son Park, now botanical garden, is surrounded.
  • The Catholic St. Mary's Church was built from 1897 to 1906 after a design by Swedish architect Karl Eduard beach man ( 1867-1946 ) as a neo-Gothic brick building with a 76 meter high tower.

Botanical garden

Catholic Church of St. Mary

The pier of Palanga with access

District glutton

Located in the southern city district Nemirseta ( Nemir - sata: swampy settlement, German: glutton ) was until 1919 the Prussian province of East Prussia and was until then as an autonomous community of the northern point of the German Reich. From this stems the rhyme " glutton, where the kingdom has its end ." Glutton was to Prussian-German times on the northern tip of an East Prussian lobe, which was surrounded on the west by the Baltic Sea and to the east and the north of Russia. This was until 1918, the then German -Russian border. From the time of its existing border crossing to the city of Palanga, which belonged to Russia, the former customs house is preserved. For 1920, separated from Germany Memel land belonging, Nimmersatt 1923 was annexed with that of Lithuania, and in 1939 returned to Germany. Since the end of World War II in 1945 glutton again belongs to Lithuania and was incorporated later to Palanga.

Justice

  • County court Palanga

Twin Cities

  • Frederiksberg, Denmark
  • Jurmala, Latvia
  • Liepaja, Latvia
  • Łódź, Poland
  • Ustka, Poland
  • Pärnu, Estonia
  • Simrishamn, Sweden
  • Bergen auf Rügen, Germany
  • Hajduszoboszlo, Hungary
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