Ratshof

Rathshof (also Ratshof, before the 20th century also Rathshubenhof ) was a west city suburb of Königsberg ( Prussia). He lay southwest of Amalienau and east of Juditten (now Mendelejewo ) and Lawsken.

History

To Order times was called the village Propsthof and belonged to the King 's Old Town, just west of it lay. Was around 1800, there was a small village with only six " fireplaces " ( households ) and the hammer pitcher, the free ditch ( Wosduschny today ) was named after an on this point iron hammer on ( Rath Höfer ). Later, there were a farm estate, a Établissement and finally a children's hospice.

1905, a part of the town was annexed to Königsberg and quickly developed into a suburb with green plants around the pond and the popular Hammer Hammer pitcher. As of 1907, a little further west between the railway and the Pillauer Lawsker Avenue a model garden city - the villa colony Juditten - built. 1916, the new building of the Academy of Art Königsberg was opened. On the territory of Rathshof were also the large memory and the wagon factory L. Steinfurt. Pregelabwärts there were a chemical and a pulp mill (North German cellulose factory). To the north, in the direction of Good Charlottenburg was located out of town, beyond the next higher-lying on the free ditch Prince pond (now Neskutschny Prud ) and the Landgraben the Vorwerk small Rathshof.

The 1905 remaining in the district of Königsberg area of ​​the village was incorporated in 1927 to Königsberg. After the city to the Soviet Union and the renamed Kaliningrad in 1945 connecting the area of Rathshof mostly came to the district Wosduschnoje of Rajons Oktyabrsky.