Jerusalem (Koenigsberg)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jerusalem was an estate and village on the left bank of the left Pregelarm (Alter Pregel) east of Koenigsberg (Prussia) .

history

The village was founded and named by knights of the Teutonic Order . The Elbingen Commander Heinrich Reuss von Plauen had a semicircular hill surrounded by a ditch raised there in the 15th century .

In 1927 a waterworks was built at the Jerusalem estate on the Pregel . The village and estate were incorporated into Königsberg in 1928.

The estate and the former village have not been preserved as a result of the Second World War . The former location belongs to today's Kaliningrad district of Moskovskoye. In the area of ​​the former estate between the Pregelufer and the southeastern arterial road of the city, the A196 leading in the direction of Prawdinsk (Friedland) and the Polish border , there are some prefabricated buildings and suburban villas built from the 1990s.

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . License issue. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 1.6 ″  N , 20 ° 34 ′ 26.9 ″  E