Steindamm (Koenigsberg)

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Steindammer (Polish) Church and Berliner Hof

The Steindamm was a settlement of the Teutonic Order , from which a suburb of Königsberg developed. It is remembered as the main and commercial street in Königsberg (Prussia) .

history

In the Teutonic Order , the area around the Steindamm was the first to be settled in Lischke am Pregel in 1256 . It was connected to the Königsberg Castle via a heaped dam . Later the dam led over the Steindammsche Bridge and through the Steindammer Tor into the Koggenstrasse, northwards past the old town's place of execution , the later Heumarkt, into Samland . The Steindammer Church was built as the first church in Königsberg in the 13th century .

In 1490 the Steindamm received its court seal and the Dinghaus . Since the three cities of Königsberg were merged since 1724, the court house was later used as an anatomical institute . In 1867 it was canceled.

Not far from the Steindammer Church was the Hotel Berliner Hof , built in 1843 , the facade of which was later changed after Alfred Messel . The tall houses were not built until the turn of the century, after the economy had revived further through the establishment of the empire . The mineralogical institute of the university (Steindamm 6) was called "the only pearl of the rough naturalistic prehistoric style of the province" . In the 19th and 20th centuries, the Steindammer coffee house , the "Kulmbacher" and Kückens restaurant were meeting places for students and younger academics. In the years before the Second World War there was still the “hut” on Steindamm, one of the many local restaurants . Some Königsbergers “shot their rabbits” in the Langanke delicatessen . The Alhambra was famous as one of the first multifunctional buildings of the 20th century.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  2. ↑ Fr. Gause, Vol. II, p. 421
  3. ^ S. Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985) . Munich 2010

literature

  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia , 3 volumes. Böhlau, Cologne 1965–1971