Nida today
View from the gallery in the
protestant fishermen church
Nida (Nidden) that today belongs to Lithuania is cherished and well-tended as an object of interest. Even before the fall of the Iron Curtain Nida has been a famous holiday resort for Russian guests. A lot of the original small wooden houses with their beautiful gardens are still left and they revive the past again. The long-standing German history of the Memel territory prior to 1939 tends to be out of consideration in favour of a more folkloristic "Curanian" perspective.
There are two little museums, one with pictures and exhibits from the prehistory among other things. The other one is put into an old wooden dwelling house and conceived as a fishing museum. In Nidden furthermore an amber museum and the Thomas-Mann-Cultural Centre that belongs to every round tour can be visited.
The whole spit with its 100 km in length has been declared a national park.
The possibilities of development are therefore limited. These villages Nida
(German Nidden), Juodkrante (Germ. Schwarzort), Preila (Germ. Preil) and Pervalka
(Germ. Perwelk) were combined in 1961 to one single administration unit called
"Neringa".
The
lighthouse