Senųjų kapinių istorijos: vietinių gyventojų ir pokarinių persikėlėlių požiūriai į Klaipėdos krašto liuteronų konfesinio paveldo reliktus | Stories of Old Cemeteries: Attitudes of the Local Population and Post-War New-Comers …
Volume 25 (2012): Klaipėdos krašto konfesinis paveldas: tarpdisciplininiai senųjų kapinių tyrimai = Confessional Heritage of Klaipėda Region: Interdisciplinary Research into the Old Cemeteries, pp. 137–161
Pub. online: 3 December 2012
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Published
3 December 2012
3 December 2012
Abstract
The article presents research materials collected by means of surveys of the old Lietuvininkai (residents of Prussian Lithuania) and settlers of the post-war period who lived in the vicinity of the old Lutheran cemeteries; that affected the character of their lifestyle, traditional moral attitudes, and economic activity in one or another way. The major part of the information was collected during summer expeditions to the villages of Saugai rural administrative unit, Šilutė district, in the summer of 2012. Authentic stories and memories of the origin and development of specific cemeteries, burial customs and habits, and the issues of cemetery care or neglecting are published and discussed. The summaries provide the views of the surveyed respondents of the immediate and further prospects of the survival of the said cemeteries.