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{{Infobox settlement
| ltname = Priekulė▼
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| COA = Priekule COA.gif▼
| settlement_type = Town
| ethnoregion = Lithuania Minor▼
| image_skyline = PriekulėSilnice141OdNáměstíKeKlajpedě.JPG
| image_caption = Main street toward [[Klaipėda]]
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| pushpin_map_caption =Location of Priekulė
| image_flag= Flag of Priekule (Lithuania).gif
| mentioned = 16th century▼
| coordinates = {{coord|55|33|20|N|21|19|10|E|region:LT_type:city(1600)|display=inline,title}}
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| subdivision_type = [[Countries of the world|Country]]
| subdivision_name = {{LTU}}
| subdivision_type1 = [[Regions of Lithuania|Ethnographic region]]
| subdivision_type2 = [[Counties of Lithuania|County]]
| subdivision_name2 = [[Image:LTU Klaipėdos apskritis flag.svg|20px]] [[Klaipėda County]]
| subdivision_type3 = [[List of municipalities of Lithuania|Municipality]]
| subdivision_name3 = [[Klaipėda District Municipality]]
| subdivision_type4 = [[Elderships of Lithuania|Eldership]]
| subdivision_name4 = Priekulė eldership
| subdivision_type6 = [[Capital (political)|Capital of]]
| subdivision_name6 = Priekulė eldership
| established_title = First mentioned
| established_date2 = 1948
| established_title2= Granted town rights
| population_total = 1,219
| population_as_of = 2022
| timezone=[[Eastern European Time|EET]]
| utc_offset=+2
| timezone_DST=[[Eastern European Summer Time|EEST]]
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'''Priekulė''' ({{pronunciation|Priekule.ogg}}; {{langx|de|Prökuls}})<ref>{{cite book| title=Ortsnamenverzeichnis der Ortschaften jenseits von Oder und Neiße |first=Margarete |last= Kaemmerer |year=2004| ISBN= 3-7921-0368-0 |language=German}}</ref> is a small [[list of cities in Lithuania|town]] in [[Klaipėda District Municipality]], in western [[Lithuania]]. It is located on the banks of [[Minija River]] about {{convert|20|km}} south of [[Klaipėda]]. Priekulė is the seat of Priekulė [[Elderships of Lithuania|elderate]]. It is located in the historic region of [[Lithuania Minor]].
▲{{Otheruses4|a town in Lithuania|a town in Latvia|Priekule}}
== History ==
Priekulė's name is known since the first half of the 16th century. At first it was named ''Paminia'' (at river [[Minija]]), and it was a small village with three homesteads. In 1511, a tavern "''zur Minnige''" is mentioned in written sources. In 1540, a certain Lukas Preckol is an owner of the tavern. It is believed that the town name was derived from Preckol's last name.<ref>{{cite book| first=Aleksandras |last=Vanagas |title=Lietuvos miestų vardai |year=1996 |language=lt |publisher=Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidykla |isbn=5-420-01354-1 |pages=177–180}}</ref> The name "Precols" was recorded on region maps in 1548. A church was built in 1587 and a teacher was hired in 1594.
It was a part of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], as a [[fief]] of Poland, held by the [[Teutonic Knights]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Górski|first=Karol|title=Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych|year=1949|publisher=Instytut Zachodni|___location=Poznań|language=pl,la|pages=96–97, 214–215}}</ref> and secular [[Ducal Prussia]]. In 1609 during the [[Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)]], regiments of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth|Polish–Lithuanian]] cavalry plundered the town. In 1688 minister Wilhelm Martin built a new church. In 1773, it became part of the newly formed province of [[East Prussia]] within the [[Kingdom of Prussia]], and from 1871 it was also part of [[German Empire|Germany]]. In 1905 the village, now known as Prökuls, had 500 residents who were mostly Protestant [[Lutheran]]s and mainly spoke the Memelland-Samogitian dialect.{{citation needed|date=February 2018}}
In the course of the [[German revolutions of 1848–1849|German revolutions]] on March 29, 1848, the local judiciary was demolished, the tax collector was mistreated and the pub was looted. The Prussian authorities put down the uprising on March 30 <ref>{{cite book|author=Hermann Pölking|title= Ostpreußen: Biographie einer Provinz|place= Berlin|year= 2012|pages=217}}</ref>
Following the restoration of independent Lithuania in 1918, the town was acquired by Lithuania in 1923. Under [[German occupation of Lithuania during World War II|German occupation]] during [[World War II]], it was the ___location of the Oflag 63 [[German prisoner-of-war camps in World War II|prisoner-of-war camp]] for [[Allies of World War II|Allied]] officers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/Oflag.htm|title=German Oflag Camps|access-date=7 May 2022}}</ref>
[[Category:Cities in Lithuania]]▼
[[Category:Towns in Klaipėda County]]▼
On December 19, 2002, the city was granted [[coat of arms]] by the [[President of Lithuania]].
== Landmarks ==
There is St. [[Anthony of Padua]] Church, built in 1938. In the city park grows a centuries-old [[oak]], that is preserved as monument of nature. In the city there is a monument to Lithuanian writer [[Ieva Simonaitytė]]. Her cottage is turned into memorial museum (established in 1984). Estates of the forefathers of philosopher [[Immanuel Kant]] (1724–1804) were located in {{ill|Kantvainai|lt}} (Kantweinen) in the vicinity of Priekulė.
== Notable residents ==
* [[Egon Erzum]] (1904–1974), German politician
* [[Erich Hippke]] (1888–1969), German physician and [[Generaloberstabsarzt]] in the [[Luftwaffe]]
==References==
{{Commons category|Priekulė}}
{{Reflist}}
==Literature==
*Mortensen, Hans und Gertrud: Kants väterliche Ahnen und ihre Umwelt, Rede von 1952 in Jahrbuch der Albertus-Universität zu Königsberg / Pr., Holzner- Verlag Kitzingen/ Main 1953 Bd. 3
*Sembritzki, Johannes: Geschichte des Kreises Memel, Memel 1918
{{Klaipeda County}}
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