along
the Curonian Lagoon shore. After 1724, the sources do not mention the village
along the Baltic Sea shore any more. The village did quite well in the new
location: a tavern was opened in 1673, a school in 1743, and a wooden church in
1795. Until 1740 the village belonged to German:
Kreis
Memel (Klaipėda County), then
from 1740-1795 to Church District German: Kirchspiel
Karwaiten (Karvaičiai). It grew
in importance after Carwaiten/Karvaičiai/Karwaiten village was swallowed by
traveling sand and the seat of the Church District relocated here. The wooden
church burned down in 1878 but was soon replaced by a red brick Lutheran church
in 1885.
Major developments took
place in 1860s. In the late 1850s the lagoon waterway was deepened and now
ferries could arrive. It was the easiest way to travel. In te course of the
work, samples of amber were found. In 1860 the Stantien & Becker company
was founded to dig amber just north of the
