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Königsberg (German: [ˈkøːnɪçsbɛʁk] ⓘ, lit. ' King's mountain ', Polish: Królewiec, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Russian: Кёнигсберг, romanized: Kyonigsberg) is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy, though the capital was moved to Berlin in 1701. From 1454 to 1455, the city under the name of Królewiec belonged to the Kingdom of Poland, and from 1466 to 1657 it was a Polish fief. Königsberg was the easternmost large city in Germany until World War II.
Als Provinzialhauptstadt der Provinz Ostpreußen war Königsberg Amtssitz des Oberpräsidenten, des Regierungspräsidenten im Regierungsbezirk Königsberg und des Stadtkreises Königsberg.
Das 14.660 Zuschauer fassende Baltika-Stadion (Стадион Балтика) im Stadtzentrum am früheren Walter-Simon-Platz war von 1905 bis 1929 unter dem Namen Königsberg-Stadion Heimspielstätte des VfB Königsberg, verfällt aber inzwischen.
Jul 19, 2024 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Formerly the capital of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
In four days of urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussian Front captured the city of Königsberg, present day Kaliningrad, Russia. The siege started in late January 1945 when the Soviets initially surrounded the city.
Kaliningrad (Russian: Калинингра́д kuh-leen-een-GRAHD) , also known by its original German name, Königsberg, is the capital city of Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia. It has about 475,000 inhabitants (2018).
Königsberg is the historic German and Prussian name of the medieval city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussian settlement Twangste by the Teutonic Knights during the Baltic Crusades.
Regierungsbezirk Königsberg was a Regierungsbezirk, or government region, of the Prussian province of East Prussia from 1815 until 1945. The regional capital was Königsberg (since 1946, Kaliningrad).
Кёнигсбе́рг — город, административный центр германской провинции Восточная Пруссия с 1773 по 1945 годы. После окончания Второй мировой войны в 1945 году был передан под юрисдикцию Советского ...
