Mittelhufen

Means hooves was a district of Königsberg ( Prussia). He was outside the city rampart north of hooves and Amalienau and west of the front hooves.

Name

The hooves was an agricultural area measure.

History of Middle- hooves

The hooves stretched out in front of the stone Dammer goal. The Schroetter map from 1802 shows these three hooves - districts ( hooves, front hooves and hooves means ) still completely undeveloped and consists only of meadows. Only the front hooves show a weak settlement along the road to Cranz. Means hooves was initially an independent village was incorporated in 1905 to Königsberg. As part of this action, the incorporation of large Tragheim gate and the stone Dammer Gate were demolished, some bastions and Wall installations and created exit roads to the hooves - districts.

The large sports field, now the stadium of FK Baltika Baltika Kaliningrad, based on a donation by the banker and councilor Walter Simon, 1892 acres of land presented his native town and available for support made ​​, there to create a sports field. The columns of the stadium input coming from the broken Altstädtischer church.

In this district are the Tiergarten, the police headquarters, the district and regional courts, the main post office, the Prussian State Archives, the New Theatre, an upper - secondary school, one high - girls - school, elementary schools, the Tiepolt orphanage, a maternity home and the Rhesianum.