Maraunenhof

Maraunenhof on a map from 1937

Maraunenhof was a district of Königsberg in Prussia , north of the Oberteich . To the southeast lay Devau and Kalthof . To the west was Palwehof . The VfB Königsberg had its stadium here.

Surname

The name goes back to a Prussian person Marun and can be derived from “maronis” (residents of a place on the lagoon ) or “marunas” ( tansy ).

history

The place was first mentioned in 1571 as a Mahrunen fisherman . In 1606 it was called Marauns Hoff Fischer and in 1785 Maraunen or Maraunenhof . This district was incorporated into the Königsberg district in 1905 and then resettled and connected to the urban transport network. The Terrainaktiengesellschaft played a key role in the development of the Maraunenhof into a residential area and replacing the previously preferred "privy council quarter" of the Tragheim as a residential area. In this district, directly to the north of the Alt Roßgarten , there were several allotments , the horse racing track , the horse exhibition area , the Tattersall , the sports field of the Königsberg men's gymnastics club , the district military office , the district military command , barracks and the Maraunenhöfer cemetery with urn cemetery .

In today's Kaliningrad , the former Maraunenhof with its many representative villas is one of the districts with the best-preserved pre-war buildings. The German consulate general for the Russian exclave was located here in the former Wallenrodtstrasse, today's Leningradskaja uliza (named after the city of Saint Petersburg, which was called Leningrad from 1924 to 1991 ) from 2007 to 2013.

Sacred buildings

• Herzog Albrecht Memorial Church

literature

• Ludwig von Baczko: An attempt at a history and description of Königsberg. Koenigsberg 1804.
• Wolfgang Schmid (ed.), Grasilda Blažiene: Hydronymia Europaea, special volume II: The Baltic place names in Samland. Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000.
• Fritz Gause : Königsberg in Prussia. Rautenberg , Leer 1987.

Coordinates: 54 ° 44 '  N , 20 ° 31'  E