Slaughterhouse (Koenigsberg)
The Königsberg slaughterhouse was on Arweider Allee in Rosenau (Königsberg) .
meaning
was one of the most modern cattle farms and slaughterhouses in Germany when it was completed in 1885 . It was created according to a design by the Königsberg city planning officer Paul Mühlbach and had its own representative water tower .
In the Middle Ages, each of the then independent municipalities ( Kneiphof , Löbenicht and Altstadt (Königsberg) ) had its own slaughterhouse, called Köttelhof. The old town was by the wooden bridge; the Kneiphöfische was built in 1377 on the south bank of the old Pregel. The Löbenichtsche was outside the walls on the Pregelufer in the Sackheim. The castle freedom had its slaughterhouse on the later Burgkirchenplatz. Only the old town slaughterhouse was able to hold up until 1889 because it belonged to the butchers' guild .
From 1900 onwards, 1,332 cattle, 1,076 sheep and 23,699 pigs were slaughtered annually at the new, central, modern slaughterhouse and cattle yard. In 1905/06 the slaughterhouse was significantly expanded. The buildings were largely destroyed in the air raids on Königsberg and were not rebuilt. The ruins of the former water tower can still be found on the site today.
literature
- 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, volume 2, city stories ) / as 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 .
- Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 . , P. 275.