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Klaipėda

Lithuania's port, with a timber-framed old town.

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📷 Andrzej Otrębski · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Klaipėda is Lithuania's only seaport, with a German-style old town, a castle museum and ferries to the Curonian Spit.

Musea in Klaipėda

Kijk binnen en betaal je entree rechtstreeks aan het museum.

Het verhaal van Klaipėda

Walk the old town of timber-framed warehouses and the Theatre Square with the fountain of Ännchen von Tharau, the girl of a famous song by the poet Simon Dach. Visit the Castle Museum in the old castle bastions, then take the short ferry to Smiltynė for the Lithuanian Sea Museum and the beach.

  • 1252the Teutonic Order founds Memel
  • 1923Klaipėda becomes part of Lithuania

Klaipėda door de tijd

De grote momenten, en waar je ze vandaag ziet.

  1. 1807The Prussian king and queen take refuge in Memel from Napoleon.Zie het: Klaipėda Castle Museum

Wat te doen in Klaipėda

  1. 01

    Lithuanian Sea Museum

    Sea animals and ships across the lagoon.

    Smiltynė3 hours
  2. 02

    Klaipėda Castle Museum

    The story of the castle and the town.

    Klaipėda1 hour
Zo kom je er

Op weg naar Klaipėda

Bijna elk museum is goed bereikbaar met het openbaar vervoer.

Reizen door Klaipėda

Lijnen en dienstregelingen veranderen. Kijk voor vertrek op de site van de vervoerder.

Op de kaart

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Ännchen of Tharau

A statue of a girl from a song stands in Klaipėda.

Lees het verhaalSluiten

On the Theatre Square stands Ännchen von Tharau, the subject of a love song written by Simon Dach, a poet born in Memel in 1605. The statue disappeared during the Second World War and a copy was put back in 1989, paid for by former inhabitants and friends of the town in Germany.