Graudenwald

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The Graudenwald was a primeval forest between Pregel and Memel .

The forest consisted of swamp oak , alder , birch and thick, thorny scrub. It was crossed by the rivers Ossat, Schillup, Buduppe (Trappenfließ) and Arge . The oldest trade route through the Grauden between Insterburg , Kraupischken and Ragnit was established around 1354 . In 1377 Marshal Gottfried von Linden crossed the Grauden with Duke Albrecht of Austria and his army of 30,000 men on their way back from Ragnit to Königsberg . In 1384 a first path, the 43rd Ordensweg, led through the Grauden, through the later places of the parish of the Jurgaitschen church such as Skattegirren, Wittgirren, Schaulwethen, Budopönen, Oschnaggern, Lieparten, Argeningken-Graudszen and Taurothenen as well as over the Tilse to Ragnit. Peter suchtwirt , who saw it with his own eyes, described it as a barely penetrable wilderness.

Wigand von Marburg knows a second Grauden in Land Geysow (Gojzew; east of the mouth of the Dubissa in the Memel).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ J. Voigt: History of Prussia: from the oldest times to the downfall ; Vol. 4, p. 38
  2. ^ GH Mortensen: Contributions to the nationality and settlement conditions of Pr. Lithuania ; (1927) p. 64

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