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The city of Königsberg in Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands—Kneiphof and Lomse—which were connected to each other, and to the two mainland portions of the city, by seven bridges. The problem was to devise a walk through the city that would cross each of those bridges ...
Medieval Königsberg's third town was Kneiphof, which received town rights in 1327 and was located on an island of the same name in the Pregolya, south of Altstadt. The 14th-century Königsberg Cathedral. Within the state of the Teutonic Order, Königsberg was the residence of the marshal, one of the chief administrators of the military order. [15]
Trestle bridge - thrown over both branches of the Pregolya and passes over Kneiphof, is part of the Leninsky Prospekt, built in 1972, [99] to replace two of the seven Königsberg bridges - Lavochny and Zeleny. There is a pedestrian descent from the bridge to the island, an automobile exit to Moskovsky Prospekt. There is no road exit to the island.
Kneiphof was devastated by the 1944 bombing of Königsberg in World War II. Conquered by the Soviet Union in 1945, Königsberg was renamed to Kaliningrad in 1946. Material from former Kneiphof's buildings was used for the reconstruction of cities such as Leningrad. In the 1970s the island began to be converted into a park with numerous sculptures.
The 15 metre-thick First Belt was erected due to Königsberg's vulnerability during the Polish–Swedish wars. [2] The Second Belt was largely constructed on the place of the first one, which was in a bad condition. [2] The new belt included twelve bastions, three ravelins, seven spoil banks and two fortresses, surrounded by a water moat. [2]
Just north of the Viehmarkt was the Hohe Brücke, a bridge connecting to the island quarter of Lomse. By the Rathäusliche Reglement of 13 June 1724, King Frederick William I of Prussia merged Kneiphof and Haberberg into the united city of Königsberg. [2]
Lastadie warehouses. The oldest docks of Königsberg were located on an island then known as Vogtswerder within the Pregel River. The 1286 charter of Altstadt allowed the town to build these initial docks (later known as the Kai, meaning quay) on the western coast of the island, connected to Altstadt by the Grüne Brücke (Green Bridge). [4]
When Kaliningrad was the German Königsberg, the island was called Lomse (Old Prussian for 'swamps') and largely used for grazing, except for the district also known as Lomse at its western end. In the 2010s the island was extensively redeveloped around the Kaliningrad Stadium, constructed for the 2018 FIFA World Cup held in Russia. [1]