Amalienau
Amalienau is the name of a former district of Königsberg and was bordered to the west by Neurossgarten , south by Rathshof and southwest by Mittelhufen . The residential area in the west was famous for its idyllic beauty.
history
The Kaporn Heath , which reached as far as the Amalienau estate, was cut down in 1558 with the exception of a small remainder. In 1802 there were only meadows here, which were only gradually developed for urban development. In 1858 Amalienau was raised to the status of an estate district . The owner Anton Douglas (1817–1883) was the landowner of Amalienau, hereditary tenant of Neue Bleiche and owner of Waldgarten near Metgethen. Douglas was married to Charlotte Warschauer, a daughter of the banker Marcus Warschauer, and was the brother-in-law of Eduard von Simson .
In 1898 the architects and construction officials Friedrich Heitmann and Joseph Kretschmann founded the Königsberg construction and real estate company. The villa suburb of Amalienau was created in 1901 through construction work by the Terrainaktiengesellschaft , and in 1905 it was incorporated into Königsberg. With Maraunenhof , Amalienau replaced the Tragheim as the preferred residential area in Königsberg.
There were also various leisure facilities in Amalienau. The Hammerbad and the Zwillingsteiche (Königsberg) with the Café Alte Hammerschmiede were to be found here. Amalienau was also the home of the Königsberg Art Academy . The sports field of Prussia-Samland Königsberg was also here on Steffeckstrasse . There was also an institution for the deaf and dumb , the Pedagogical Academy and the I. Luisenfriedhof with a Catholic cemetery . To the west of the Fürstenschlucht was the New Israel Burial Court .
From 1926 to 1945 there was a radio station in Amalienau .
After the Second World War , the old Prussian villas were largely used by Soviet functionaries. For this reason, in contrast to many other districts of Königsberg, Amalienau was almost completely preserved. Today the former Amalienau district belongs to the Kaliningrad Central Rajon .
Sacred buildings
- The Queen Luise Memorial Church on Hufenallee was the parish church for Hufen and Amalienau.
- The Adalbertkirche was built in 1904.
Little Amalienau
Located northwest of the Hufen , Klein Amalienau had a military airship port . The hall, completed in 1911, was 170 m × 50 m × 37 m in size and could accommodate two airships. According to a more recent local historical source, it had the largest gate wing in the world.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
- ^ Moditten district , 1858 creation of the Amalienau manor district, accessed July 1, 2015
- ^ Fritz Gause: The history of the city of Königsberg. Volume II: From the coronation to the outbreak of the First World War. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 1968, p. 404
- ↑ Figure Schloss Amalienau , the castle belonged to Gut Klein Amalienau , which the Königsberger Bau- und Immobiliengesellschaft acquired in 1898 for the construction of the Amalienau villa colony
literature
- Fritz Gause : Königsberg in Prussia. Rautenberg, Leer 1987, ISBN 3-7921-0345-1 .
- Willi Scharloff: Königsberg. Then and now. Rautenberg, Leer 1982, ISBN 3-7921-0266-8 .
- Leopold von Schroetter : Map of East Prussia with Prussian Litthauen and West Prussia with Netzedistrict 1796-1802. In: Hans Mortensen (Hrsg.): Historisch-Geographischer Atlas des Preußenlandes. Delivery 6. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02671-1 .
- Yuri Ivanov: Königsberg and surroundings. Laumann, Dülmen 1994, ISBN 3-87466-185-7 .
- Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era. Husum, Husum, 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5
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Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ' N , 20 ° 28' E