Groß Wohnsdorf Castle
| Groß Wohnsdorf Castle | ||
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 tower |
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| Conservation status: | ruin | |
| Standing position : | Ordensburg | |
| Place: | Kurortnoje | |
| Geographical location | 54 ° 28 '13.1 " N , 21 ° 7' 21.6" E | |
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The castle Groß Wohnsdorf was an order castle of the Teutonic Order in the then East Prussian village Groß Wohnsdorf, today Kurortnoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad .
history
A case of large residential village on the high bank above the all (Russian: Lawa) situated Old Prussian Wallenburg was in 1255 by the Teutonic Knights stormed who established a wild house here. In 1319 and 1347, Lithuanians conquered the castle and destroyed it.
Groß Wohnsdorf was from 1348 the chamber office of the Insterburg order (today in Russian: Tschernjachowsk), and the complex was repaired until 1356. From 1391, the order began to replace the previous fortification with a stone building due to its lack of resistance.
In 1468, the high master of the order, Heinrich Reuss von Plauen, pledged the castle and the land belonging to it to Hans von Weyer . Since then it has been the center of a private estate economy. In 1525 Duke Albrecht von Prussia enfeoffed nobleman Heyno von Döberitz and in 1552 Andreas von Flanns with the estate. Around 1590 the manor complex was rebuilt and expanded.
From 1688 (or 1702) to 1945 the property belonged to the von Schrötter family . The later Upper President and Minister of State of East and West Prussia, Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von Schrötter was born here and lived at a young age in the tower, where he along with his father Friedrich Wilhelm von Schrötter on the terrace of the tower philosophical discussions with Immanuel Kant led the the von Schrötter family was on friendly terms and enjoyed staying in Groß Wohnsdorf.
In 1830 the castle building burned down. The stones were used for the new manor building, which was built in 1868/69 in the park on the site of the former outer bailey.
As a result of the Second World War , Wohnsdorf and Agnesenhof came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia . "Gross Wonsdorf" and Agnesenhof were given the common Russian name " Kurortnoje " in 1950 .
