Wet garden

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Wet garden on a map from 1939

Nasser Garten was a district of Königsberg (Prussia) , south of the Old Pregel and west of the Haberberg . Today it is called Portowoje in Russian and is located in the Moscow Rajon , a district in the south of Kaliningrad , the capital of the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg region ).

Surname

The name refers to a floodplain on the lower Pregel, as does the nearby Ponarth district .

history

The wet garden initially belonged to Haberberg, a village with 24 farmers, which was given to the residents of the Kneiphof by Margrave Albert in 1522. At the end of the Haberberg was the “Old Garden” or “Dry Garden”, and separated from it by a wall was the “Wet Garden”. So-called gardens have already been created by the order. There were no ornamental or orchards, but small farmers in garden villages were set up here. Their property included a vacant apartment or cottage and about two to three acres of fields, so the gardeners had to accept whatever services were offered to support themselves and their families. They were called "contract gardeners", "bad gardeners", "losmen" or "residents" and were later replaced by the inst people.

The wet garden was under water every spring and had to be pumped out with horse-powered bucket mills. In 1807 the French stood in front of Königsberg and General Rüchel had the wet garden burned down.

literature

  • Ludwig von Baczko : An attempt at a history and description of Königsberg . 2nd completely reworked edition. Goebbels and Unzer, Königsberg 1804, GoogleBooks .
  • Fritz Gause : Königsberg in Prussia. The history of a European city , 2nd edition. Rautenberg, Leer 1987, ISBN 3-7921-0345-1 .
  • Kurt von Staßewski, Robert Stein: What were our ancestors? Official, professional and class titles from Old Prussia , 2nd supplemented and expanded edition. Self-published by the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia e. V., Hamburg 1971, (special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia e. V. 18), (original edition: 1938, individual publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia 2).
  • Lorenz Grimoni , Wolfgang Klein: The suburb of Nasser Garten - a largely unknown district of Königsberg . Königsberger Bürgerbrief 91 (2018), pp. 25–29.

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Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′  N , 20 ° 29 ′  E