Talk:Klaipėda

message: Better than the rest of the country? Mithridates 19:30, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How's the weather? 

message: It's valid that this article makes clear that Memel/Klaipeda was indeed a largely German city ethnically for most of its history. I've been there and seen the remnants of its German history. However, the article fails to mention that the city of Memel and the Memelland had a mixed German/Lithuanian population. Although most of the "Preussisch Litauisch" (Lithuanian-Prussian) inhabitants were to some extent culturally Germanized, i.e. Protestant, they continued to speak Lithuanian in their homes and maintained an identity distinct from the Prussians across the Memel/Neman River. After WWII, a number of them returned to their homes and were accepted as Lithuanian citizens. Cf. "Paradiesstrasse," by Ulla Lachauer.
Also, Klaipeda today has a large container port that is vital to Lithuania's foreign trade.
Sca 00:24, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lithuanian / German

message: Why should there be a disclaimer for "Memel town"? The primary meaning of "Memel" in English is the city, and hence should redirect to Klaipėda. Situations like this are why Template:Redirect was created in the first place. Olessi 20:28, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Memel currently redirects to Memel (disambiguation), which is against the Manual of Style. Either "Memel" should be the disambiguation page, or Memel should redirect to Klaipėda and an Other Uses Template should be included. My preference is for the latter. Olessi 18:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone? Olessi 15:10, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As discussed before at Talk:Memel (disambiguation), Memel needs to be an article that discusses the various meanings, see also EB which has 5 different articles. Philip Baird Shearer had moved Memel to Memel (disambiguation). It should not be a simple dab-page, though, and certainly not be "buried" as redirect to Klaipeda only, which is simply wrong. --Matthead 18:59, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

text: You've mentioned that before, and it seems Philip and I have agreed to disagree with you. Memel (disambiguation) would not be "buried" as a redirect on Klaipeda; it would be prominently displayed at the top of the article. However, if "Memel" is NOT a redirect to Klaipeda, then "Memel" should be the disambiguation page, not "Memel (disambiguation)". I see no reason to have "disambiguation" as part of the namespace title when it is not actually disambiguating from "Memel". Very few people are going to search for "Memel town", making the current disclaimer atop Klaipeda look awkward. Olessi 20:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe Memel should simply redirect to Klaipeda and then Klaipeda should have that template "Memel redirects here. For other uses see here." Renata 21:39, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memel town? 

message: The population shrank from 207,100 in 1992 to 187,442 inhabitants in 2005.
— Why?
— "Inhabitants" is superfluous.
"Framework architecture" is generally known in English as "half-timbered construction."
Sca 22:07, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: My grandfather's family fled Memel in December 1939 to escape the Nazis. From what he's told me, the Jewish students were expelled from the schools about a year before that, and most of the Jews in the area fled around this time. I don't know enough details to write the history of this period, but it would be nice if someone could include a bit about it here.
: probably exagerated myths (see Holocaust)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mizanthrop (talk • contribs) 10:33, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the Jews? 

message: 24.90.31.147 (talk) 17:20, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  good point!  what about the entire second world war period?  that's also missing in action 

message: I had to laugh when I read that "Chancellor" Adolf Hitler visited in '39!  Hitler, one need hardly mention, is one of the most widely known figures in recent history; we don't need to identify him by one of his titles (later superseded by Führer), much less dignify him by making him sound like some ordinary government official. We wouldn't write about "General Secretary" Stalin, either, except perhaps in the context of a discussion of CPSU history. Deleted.
Sca 17:38, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Adolf

message: Is someone aware that mayor's name is missing in the infobox? NoTime 12:15, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayor's missing in the infobox 

message: The audio file says something like /kleɪpɛdə/ while the text says /klaɪpɛdə/.  Anybody know which is right?  Are both used?  Is one English, the other Lithuanian? Elphion (talk) 01:10, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Why is that  flawless history section gone ENTIRELY? The one who managed to remove it should write a summary in the page accordingly!Iulius (talk) 07:53, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I just noticed this (actually, I found the strangely amputated history section lingering in its own page) and re-added the whole section. It had been split of by a user back in March 2009, probably with the never-realized intention to edit both articles into decent shape. As that has not happened, there seems to be no good reason for upholding the split. I don't think the Klaipėda page is overwhelmingly large with the history section included. --Hegvald (talk) 05:09, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History section missing!

message: In the German Empire section two widely different figures are given for the 1910 population: 21,470 and 149,766. The second figure is claimed to be from the census and seems more credible, but could someone with knowledge fix it?Channelwatcher (talk) 14:14, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Population in 1910

message: I've just finished reading a book on the German/Lithuanian conflict in the 30s and this article struck me as a very pro-German in its POV. Perhaps some balancing is in order? 79.188.142.250 (talk) 15:32, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: There is a german wiki page for the former prussian director of the baltic region (1876-1892) and director of the port of memel Ludwig Hagen. He published some works about the port of Memel and saved the dunes at the northern split for what he got an memorial next to Smiltyne, the "Hagen`s Höh" / Hageno Kalnas BesHagNeu (talk) 19:34, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Port of Memel / Klaipeda

message: The coat of arms is described as being "reaffirmed" in 1992 but based on old seals, the latest of which was 1618. However, a 1970s edition of "Tarybų Lietuva"  (1'14") shows a monument which apparently commemorates the twinning of Klaipeda and Debrecen, and the coat of arms is very similar to its current form (the main content of this Youtube clip is about the Meridianas ship). The 1970s symbol has waves below the boat, which differs from Mickevicius' later interpretation (that was probably done after he reviewed the old seals himself). The T.L. films were presumably extremely politically correct by the standards of the day and would not have depicted symbols not approved of by the then government. An update by someone with access to better evidence, would enhance the article. 213.205.227.8 (talk) 23:51, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Don‘t know if this info is suitable for the article, someone with decent skills of EN language may add it (my skills are bad). Situation with that "soviet COA of Klaipėda" is that the first republican Heraldry Commission in the USSR was established within the Lithuanian SSR Ministry of Culture, in 1966. Some 46 coats of arms were recreated and affirmed by this Commission. Klaipėda's coat of arms was affirmed in 1969, design was created by Jonas Stumbras. The design featured  a "heater shield" which in RUS wiki is also called Varangian, Normanian and Old Russian; this shape is also widely used in modern Russia. Most of current LT coats of arms have "traditional Iberian" shield. There is a reason for that, perhaps. So, back to 1970 – there was a song festival in July and there was a solemn march where people were carrying historical coats of arms of various towns. Very soon after that the work of the commission was discontinued, commission itself was annulled. So everything what was legal became illegal again. That's all. Some physical examples of some coats of arms kept to exist, they were called "historical emblems" or so. And they didn't strictly follow heraldic rules, so to speak. Hence the waves in Klaipėda's COA of the 1969. But generally public demonstration of heraldic symbols was perceived by Soviet government as a manifestation of nationalism, which was sort of remnant of capitalism, while soviet society was supposed to be a new kind of society, free from the past. Source of the information is, for example, a book by Edmundas Rimša "Heraldika. Iš praeities į dabartį", Vilnius, 2004, page 163; EN translation was published next year - "Heraldry: past to present", Vilnius, publisher Versus aureus, 2005, . --Kazys (talk) 10:55, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Coat of arms pre 1992

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message: *I read somewhere that the name Memel came from Lithuanian or Old Prussian memelas meaning "sandbank". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 04:40, 2 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of name 

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message: "The population has shrunk from the city to its suburbs and the hinterland. "
I imagine that there should be two numbers following, thus: "...shrunk from [X] to [Y]..." However, this leaves us with a hanging fragment of prose "the city to its suburbs and the hinterland."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Floozybackloves (talk • contribs) 19:26, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  What on earth does this mean? 

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