Kaliningrad Central Park

Luis election was a Königsberg city park in the district of hooves. The villa is located was named after Queen Louise Luis house.

History

Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Elder. acquired 1786 the Good Pojenters with country house and beautiful park, which at that time was still out of town. From a mobile made ​​by him with planks way the hooves Allee later developed. After his death in 1796 acquired the churches and school board Gotthilf Christoph Busolt the estate and named it in honor of his wife " Luis choice." The country house set Busolt during the occupation of the Prussian royal couple as a summer residence available. There, Friedrich Wilhelm III advised. with the Minister of State Stone and Colonels Geneisenau Scharnhorst and the Prussian reforms. When Napoleon in June 1812 on his way to Russia, wanted to settle down there, wrote his quartermaster with chalk on the door: " Miserable chateau pour un roi ". Kaiser Wilhelm I bought the property in 1872 as a childhood memory of his mother. On her favorite place, the highest point in the park, he erected in 1874, the Luisendenkmal: one running in the bow bench with side platforms. Kaiser Wilhelm II gave in 1914 the site of the city. In the northern part of the park built for the 200th coronation anniversary in 1901 Luis Church. Of the king salvors, the park was therefore felt to be sacrosanct. As in the twenties of the twentieth century, the heavily loaded hooves Avenue should extend the range of Luis choice, a storm of indignation arose. To a group of trees of White Book of the park not to have to cut down, the extended road was routed around them. The road island with the trees is still preserved today. 54 ° 43 ' 13 " N, 20 ° 28' 41 " O54.72040555555620.478066666667 In today's Kaliningrad is Luis choice part of the Culture Park Kalinin.

Images from the City Park

Luisenhaus

Luisendenkmal

Luisendenkmal

Luisenhaus

Queen Louise and her two eldest sons, Friedrich Wilhelm IV and Kaiser Wilhelm I in the park by Luis choice