Tragheim

Home support was situated northwest of the castle district of Königsberg ( Prussia) and was considered a genteel " Receding quarter " of Königsberg.

Name

The name is of Old Prussian " Trakas ": clearing in the forest, glade, Gehau, felling in the forest, high-altitude dry meadow with sporadic bushes and " caymis, kaimas " derive village.

History

The home support was mentioned in 1322 in Löbenichtschen privilege. The village belonged until 1632 to löbenichtschen community. One can safely assume that it was considered freedom, because Margrave Albert Friedrich gave the village in 1577 a coat of arms with a brown stag's head between two green pine trees in the blue shields for coat of arms. First, it was divided into the anterior, middle and posterior supporting home. The inhabitants belonged to Löbenichtschen church and were buried in the Polish cemetery. On the home support, there were many houses that were free of all charges that had little jurisdiction and unzünftige artisans enabled the living. There were several foundations distinguished citizens in favor of supply ( noble ) widows and orphans. 1539 burned down the home support after a fire had broken out in the Lithuanian bathhouses. 1703 Königsberg Jews allowed the king in the spirit of tolerance, the system of a cemetery on the freedom of carrying home. Beginning of the 20th century resided here the Conservative Party with the East Prussian newspaper. This was also the editor of the Königsberg indicator of Georgina, the Journal of the Chamber of Agriculture and a number of other smaller newspapers. After the establishment of colonies of villas Maraunenhof and Amalienau the support home lost its position as the preferred residential area.

On the support home to the government building, the University Albertina, the Palaestra Albertina and several university institutes, the University Library, the Municipal Theater, the Graduate School, the upper - secondary school, gymnasium and sports facilities, a primary school, a kindergarten school, a fire station, the Israelite burial ground were, the tax office and the king garden, which originally belonged to the castle freedom. To lock out ponds, in the best locations, the old clubhouse, the Immanuel Lodge, the Lodge Skull and phoenix, the Three Crown Lodge and Park Hotel were located.

Religious buildings

• The foundation stone of the stone Dammer St. Nikolai church was 1256th In the 16th to 18th century, the church, especially by Protestant Poles and Lithuanians was used. Only briefly, during the Seven Years' War, it was used 1760-1762 as the Orthodox Church. A bell was obtained at the Hamburg Cemetery and bells ringing today in Verden Cathedral. Poured in 1714 in Königsberg bell foundry thorn man. It is not obtained.

• The Tragheim church was built in 1632 and rebuilt several times. It is not obtained.

• The supporting home community center

• The Baptist church at the top of the castle pond