Luisenwahl

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Park Luisenwahl on a city map from 1931

Luisenwahl was a Königsberg city ​​park in the district of Hufen . The country house located in it was named after Queen Luise Luisenhaus .

history

Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder Ä. In 1786 acquired the Pojenters estate with a country house and a beautiful park, which at that time was still outside the city. Hufenallee later developed from a path he made drivable with planks . After his death in 1796 the church and school councilor Christoph Wilhelm Busolt bought the property and named it "Luisenwahl" in honor of his wife. Busolt made the country house available to the Prussian royal couple as a summer residence during the occupation . Friedrich Wilhelm III advised there . the Prussian reforms with State Minister Stein and Colonels Gneisenau and Scharnhorst . When Napoleon wanted to settle there in June 1812 on his way to Russia , his quartermaster wrote on the door in chalk: “Miserable chateau pour un roi”. Kaiser Wilhelm I bought the property in 1872 as a childhood memory of his mother. At her favorite place, the highest point in the park, he erected the Luisendenkmal in 1874 : an arched bench with side platforms. Kaiser Wilhelm II donated the site to the city in 1914. In the northern part of the park, the Luisenkirche was built for the 200th anniversary of the coronation in 1901 . The park was therefore perceived as sacrosanct by the people of Königsberg . When the heavily polluted Hufenallee in the Luisenwahl area was to be expanded in the 1920s, a storm of indignation arose. In order not to have to cut down a group of hornbeam trees in the park, the extended road was led around them. The street island with the trees is still preserved today. 54 ° 43 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 20 ° 28 ′ 41 ″  E In what is now Kaliningrad , Luisenwahl is part of the Kalinin Cultural Park.

Pictures from the city park

See also

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. Special edition. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Hobbing & Büchle, Stuttgart 1899 ( German land and life in single descriptions . 2, city stories), (reprint: Melchior-Verlag, Wolfenbüttel 2006, ISBN 3-939102-70-9 (historical library) ).
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes. 2nd / 3rd supplemented edition. Böhlau, Cologne et al. 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era. Husum Druck, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .
  • Jürgen Manthey: Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic. Hanser, Munich et al. 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Frey Herr von Schroetter : Map of East Prussia together with Prussian Litthauen and West Prussia together with Netzedistrict. Sheet 6: Labiau, Königsberg, Wehlau. Simon Schropp, Berlin 1802 (facsimile: Hans Mortensen (Hrsg.): Historisch-Geographischer Atlas des Preußenlandes. Part 6. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1978, ISBN 3-515-02671-1 ), (approx. 1: 160,000).
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. On the way between Memel and Haff. Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X (Trescher travel series) .

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 3.3 ″  N , 20 ° 28 ′ 40 ″  E