Smalininkai

Smalininkai
Ceety
Piers on the neman River in Smalininkai
Eik-name(s):  Smolnis
Coordinates: 55°5′0″N 22°34′0″E
Kintra	Lithuanie
Ethnographic region	Samogitie
Coonty	Tauragė Coonty
Municipality	Jurbarkas Destrict Municipality
Eldership	Smalininkai eldership
Caipital o	Smalininkai eldership
First mentioned	15t century
Grantit ceety richts	1946
Population  (2011)
• Total	515
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)

Smalininkai (pronunciation ) is a smaw ceety in Lithuanie. It is situatit in the umwhile samogitian pairt o Memelland on the richt-haund shore o the Neman River, 12 km (7.5 mi) wast frae Jurbarkas. It wis pairt o German East Proushie an wis cried Schmalleningken. Atween 1923 - 1939 an syne Warld War II it is pairt o Lithuanie.

Name

The name describes a place o tar an pitch burners ("smala": tar, pitch; -ingken: veelage).

History

Syne 1422 (Treaty o Melno) Schmalleningken wis a border-veelage at the Lithuanie-German customs frontier. 1792 it wis appointit tae a mercat toun. 1845 the veelage became a pairish an 1878 a kirk wis biggit. 1902 a licht railwey wis biggit frae Pogegen tae Schmalleningken. The veelage haed in 1925 1,741 inhabitants an wis incorporatit intae the Landkreis Tilsit-Ragnit in 1939.

Leeteratur

• Kurschat, Heinrich A.: Das Buch vom Memelland, Siebert Oldenburg 1968