Romincka Forest

The Romincka Forest (Russian Krasny Les, Polish Puszcza Romincka ) is a hill, forest and heath area in the southeast of the Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, as well as in the northeastern province of Warmia and Mazury, Poland.

Name

The German and the Polish name is derived as well as the river and place name Rominte and Rominten of the pruzzischen ( Old Prussian ) syllable " rom" from the " quiet, calm, holy " means about. This is associated with pagan cult. The Russian name Krasny Les means ' Red Forest '.

Geography

The more than 25,000 hectares in Romincka Forest is drained by the river Krasnaya ( Rominte, in Polish Błędzianka, Rominta ).

On the western edge of the Russian part of the region is the village Krasnolessje (formerly (large) Rominten, and in 1938 renamed Hardteck ), in the south, close to the Polish border, the local site of the former village ( hunting lodge ) Rominten (Russian: Радужное / Raduschnoje ). - In the Polish part are the place Żytkiejmy ( Szittkehmen, 1938 renamed fortified churches ) and the small town Goldap. In the south- west borders of Goldap lake. To the east on the border with Lithuania is the Wystiter Sea, west of which the Wystiter hills.

Hunting

Traditionally, the Rominter Heath was a popular hunting ground of the Prussian rulers. Over the centuries was the waidmännische interest of the Brandenburg-Prussian Hohenzollern here especially the Specimen deer, until the eighteenth century, however, the more numerous brown bears. After release of the hunt as a result of the German Revolution of 1848/ 19, the red deer had recovered significantly under the Hege of Prince Frederick Charles Nicholas of Prussia in the second half of the 19th century again. In the middle of Rominter Heath, in 1897 in the " Imperial Rominten " renamed village Theerbude, was erected by Emperor Wilhelm II in the Norwegian-style hunting lodge with adjoining chapel. This was dedicated to Hubert of Liege, first aid and patron of the hunt. In contrast to the community (large) Rominten on the western edge of the heath was " Imperial Rominten " in 1911, only one forest district with 390 inhabitants.

After the abdication of the emperor was from " Imperial Rominten " the village " hunting lodge Rominten " in which the forester Rominten was located. The remaining three responsible for Romincka Forest Prussian forestry divisions were in northwest Warn (Russian: Озерки / Ozerki ), northeast in Nassawen (Russian: Лесистое / Lessistoje ) and east in Szittkehmen (Polish: Żytkiejmy ). After a Prussian state hunting grounds had become of the imperial hunting grounds of the Weimar Republic, Prime Minister Otto Braun often went hunting.

At the time of National Socialism, the Romincka Forest of " Master of the Hunt " Hermann Goering was sequestrated. He settled about two miles north of the old imperial hunting lodge built " Rominten Empire Jägerhof " as a permanent home on the steep hillside above the Rominte the. On the International Hunting exhibitions in Berlin in 1937 and in 1954 Dusseldorf own special shows were held for Rominter Heide, each of which was of Walter Frevert ( 1897-1962 ), the last chief forester of Rominter Heide designed. The focus of both shows was on Hege and hunting of red deer and the presentation of capital- deer antlers.

The hunting area Romincka Forest dedicates the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg part of its collections. There, and in the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich hang some of the Specimen Rominten deer antlers. Artistic representations of the red deer from Rominten come from the hunting painters Prof. Richard Friese (1854-1918) and Prof. Gerhard Löbenberg ( 1891-1967 ).

Today, hunting tourism is located in the 2/3 on the Russian and 1/3 on the Polish side region in importance again.