Lomse

The Lomse (Russian Ломзе, officially: October island or Октябрьский остров ) is the German name for an island and an eastern district of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad ) between the old and new, east Pregel to Konigsberg Cathedral. Before 1945, only the west of the island was built, the vast majority consisted of wet meadows and gardens. The Lomse is connected across the wooden bridge to the old town, on the honey or Tumski Bridge with the Kneiphof, on the Kaiser bridge with the suburb and the High Bridge with the Southtown Haberberg.

Name

The name has an Old Prussian origin and refers to swampy terrain: " lumpe, lumpsin " ( marshy land fraction, muddy place that trembles when entering ).

History

The Lomse belonged to the city's founding to the old town, was opened 1404-1466 and was its storage area. The residents it served to establish stables or the management of a garden. The inhabitants of the Kneiphofs envied the Old Town because of these privileges and concluded in 1535 a comparison with them, after which the Old Town would have to agree not to build houses on the Lomse, a commitment that was gradually forgotten. Meadows and partly extremely low-lying gardens were crossed by drainage ditches. It was only towards Sackville, the country was hilly and served the field economy.

The Lomse and the bridges were part of the Königsberg bridge problem, a mathematical question of the 18th century who in 1736 broke the Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler with an early graph theoretical methodology.

1738 was founded on the Lomse the " Anatomical Theatre ". On the orders of King Frederick II mulberry plantations were created as food for the silkworm production from 1742. In the harsh winter of 1771 froze all the mulberry trees. 1804 was the Lomse willows along the dam still divided into " plantation ", " first or front Lomse " and " second or rear Lomse ". Here there was the cattle market and on public buildings the slaughterhouse, a guard house and the flour scales. The " Kypeksche Institute " (pen ) for students at Willow Dam had a large garden and as well as the surrounding private houses an excellent outlook.

Today the island is called Lomse October. On the western edge of the Lomse the historicizing rows of houses of fishing village (Russian Рыбная деревня ), which will house hotels, restaurants and event venues arise. The ekletizistische construction project euphemistically in the local terminology as " ethnographic craft and trade center." One of the Towers of the project will bear the historic name Lomse.

Since the year 2013, the construction of the " Arena Baltica " is being prepared for the Lomse. The new football stadium with first 45,000 (later 25,000 ) seats to be a venue for the World Cup 2018.

Religious buildings

The liberal New Synagogue in Linden Street was built in 1894-1896 in place of broken memory. It was set on fire in 1938 and demolished after the second world war. The Jewish orphanage was founded in 1861. The new building north of the synagogue was built in 1904 /05 and now serves as an office building.

The Protestant Church Cross in the plantation in 1930 - built in 1933 and was given a veneer of Cadiner clinkers. Since 1993, the Cross church is used by the Russian Orthodox Church.