Plikiai

Plikiai ( German Plicken ) is a town ( miestelis ) and the center of the eponymous administrative district ( seniūnija ) the Rajongemeinde Kretinga in the Lithuanian district of Klaipeda. The population amounted in 2001 to 607

1919 or Before 1945 it was a municipality in the then Prussian district of Memel.

History

Before 1945

1891 Plicken was raised by the construction of the Protestant Church, which ended in 1896, to the parish. Previously belonged to the rural settlement partly embossed Parish Memel and partly to the parish of German Crottingen. The term of office of parish priest Peter Felix Žematait also the rectory was built in 1896. 1928 Johann Tennigkeit was his successor. In 1906 the municipality has a small train ride from the city of Memel. During the Lithuanian crew came in 1932 for the construction of the Catholic Šv. Seimos - Jėzaus, Marijos ir Juozapo Baznycia ( Church of the Holy Family - Jesus, Mary and Joseph ). In 1925, Plicken 996 inhabitants.

After 1945

From 1944 the German population left because of the entry of the Red Army in East Prussia fled the village. However, many families could not make it in time or were on the run forced to turn back because the land into the German Empire in Elbing by the advance of the Red Army was cut off. These were then largely expelled or deported 1945-1953 by the incorporation into the Soviet Union. So was under Soviet Directorate held a redistribution of land ownership and the many vacant farms were taken over gradually by the resettled Lithuanians ( Schemaitien ). Religious and ethnic differences are therefore led in many places to tensions between the remaining predominantly Protestant Memellanders and the Catholic settlers. As part of the de-Nazification of the German language was banned and the local cultural space " litauifiziert ". In the context of negotiation talks by Konrad Adenauer with the moderate Khrushchev government and the last remaining Germans a move to West Germany were from 1958 in all the former eastern territories as apply in Plicken.

Today

During the Soviet period the buildings and the cemetery in the village were left to decay. After the fall of these have been restored after initial fears of contact in Lithuanian- German cooperation. The most important employer in the area is now the woodworking and furniture building in the UAB Sakuona.

Sports

• FK Sakuona Plikiai ( ball sports club, former SV Plicken, founded 1919)
• FK Klarksonas - Plikiai ( football club )