Tilse River

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The Tilse ( tilszus = swampy; Russian тыльжа ) is a 27 km long river in the former East Prussia, which flows into Sowetsk in the Memel. According to him, the former Tilsit is named.

Name and Running

After older traditions that flow Tilsot or Tilsete is mentioned in the way reports of the Teutonic Order. The immigrant in the 15th and 16th centuries Lithuanians turned it into Tilszele, which remained in the vernacular.

Headwaters

The source of Tilse located in the southern part of the former circle Ragnit, 5 km from the Paballen station on the railway line Tschernjachowsk - Sowetsk ( Tilsit - Szillen - Green heath - Insterburg - Königsberg ). In a formed of alder, birch and spruce forest in Meldienen - Patilszen (1938-1946: Tilsen ) some streams flow together to the river Tilse.

Run

Relatively quickly it flows in the rocky river bed in which at Butt Kuhnen: lie (1938-1946 Tilsental ) large boulders. There already 1.5 m wide, the Tilse is bridged by the road Szillen - Kraupischken. From northward turned here, it passes Tilsewischken, Balandßen, Ruddecken, Podßuhnen, Pucknen, child 's, Jonienen, Kurschen, Schupp interior, Woydehnen, Moritzkehmen and Tilsit - Kallkappen. Woods and meadows stretch out to the partially high banks. Picturesque landscapes are the Schlossberg between Kurschen and Schupp interior and the canyon at Kurschen. The Graudenwald was an impenetrable wilderness. In child shear grove the Tilse takes the Liepart -Bach and Kurschen the Malan - Bach on.

Cultivation

Since the Tilse flows through low-lying terrain, so their lands could be drained low. The district administration Tilsit - Ragnit she was guided 1931/32 at Woydehnen in a new bed. At the same time the lower Tilse was regulated by Kurschen to Tilsit. When Will 's Mountain, a 20 -meter-long bridge for your train Stallupönen was - Tilsit built. About Moritzkehmen and Kallkappen the river reaches the castle mill pond and passes through the Tilszelehafen in the Memel.

Castle Mill Pond in Tilsit

1562 was the reigning Tilsit Amtshauptmann Kaspar damming of Nostiz the castle mill pond; for with the sufficient water volume of the river Duke Albrecht wanted to create for economic reasons a water mill.