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In June 2010, the regional Minister of Culture, Mikhail Andreyev, announced that a referendum on the reconstruction of the castle would be held in the city of in March 2011. Previously, it had been intended to hold the referendum in October 2010, but budgetary pressures caused a delay. [10] [11] Excavations at the castle site, January 2018
The "reconstruction" of the oblast, threatened by hunger in the immediate post-war years, was carried out through an ambitious policy of oceanic fishing [103] with the creation of one of the main fishing harbours of the USSR in Kaliningrad city. Fishing not only fed the regional economy but also was a basis for social and scientific development ...
View from the castle over the Alsatian plain up to the Black Forest. The Château du Haut-Koenigsbourg (French: [ʃɑto dy o kœniksbuʁ]; German: Hohkönigsburg), sometimes also Haut-Kœnigsbourg, is a medieval castle located in the commune of Orschwiller in the Bas-Rhin département of Alsace, France.
Construction of Königsberg Castle began in 1255 during the conquest of Samland by the Teutonic Knights, part of the Prussian Crusade. An initial settlement was founded north of the castle (later known as Steindamm ) the following year, but this was destroyed by Sambians during the 1262 Siege of Königsberg . [ 1 ]
1262 – Prussians begin to besiege castle during the Great Prussian Uprising. 1264 – Settlement developed south of the castle. 1286 – Königsberg chartered. [1] 1300 – Town of Löbenicht built. [2] 1324 – Town of Kneiphof founded. [2] 1333 - Construction of Königsberg Cathedral begins. [1] 1340 – Königsberg joins Hanseatic League. [1]
The resettled area, which became known as Steindamm (stone causeway or embankment) after its main thoroughfare, extended northwest of Königsberg Castle. Medieval Steindamm began at the original southern Steindamm Gate (Steindammsches Tor) by Koggenstraße, traveled north past Steindamm Bridge (Steindammsche Brücke) and the castle's moat, and ...
Dohna Tower, the last to surrender after the Soviet storming of Königsberg in 1945. [1]The fortifications of the former East Prussian capital Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) consist of numerous defensive walls, forts, bastions and other structures.
The first recorded name of the castle is castrum de Coningsberg in Zambia.The Polish chronicler Jan Długosz, writing in the 15th century referred to the city's battle standard captured by the Poles at the Battle of Grunwald (1410) by both the German name Kunigsperk and the Polish version Crolowgrod, which given the Polish orthography of the time, has been transliterated as Krolowgrod.