Building of the former Pėžaičiai narrow gauge railway station

The building of the former Pėžaičiai station on the narrow-gauge railway line.

The densest narrow-gauge railway network within East Prussia was in the Klaipėda region. In 1906–1944, a 34.8-kilometre line was built, connecting Pėžaičiai and Klaipėda. The building of the narrow gauge railway station in Pėžaičiai is one of the two surviving in the territory of the current Klaipėda district (the other one is in Gargždai at Laugalių Str. 6). The structure now serves as an apartment building. The narrow-gauge railway was likely supposed to activate and speed up the exchange of goods and enhance the mobility of people between Pėžaičiai and other settlements of the Klaipėda region; however, the railway also had an economic stimulus for the exchange of goods between the residents of Pėžaičiai and inhabitants of Lithuania Major.