Königsberg was a port city on the southeastern corner of the Baltic Sea. It is today known as Kaliningrad and is part of Russia. Königsberg[a] was the historic German (Prussian) name of …

Jan 4, 2026 · The final collapse of East Prussia ended with the slow destruction of Königsberg once a symbol of Prussian power and German history. This episode examines the siege …

During the 1286-1327 period the three settlements which had formed round the castle of Königsberg (Altstadt, Löbenicht and Kneiphof) were granted the status of towns. In 1724, they …

Königsberg was the name for the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement Twangste …

Dec 6, 2025 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. …

City of Köngisberg (today Kaliningrad), was established as a settlement by the castle, by Livonian Brothers of the Sword, by king Ottocar II from Bohemia (Czech). It's beeing built in the place of …

It was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who led a campaign against the pagan Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe. A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of the State of …

Few traces of the former Königsberg remain today. The literal meaning of Königsberg is 'King's Mountain'. In the local Low German dialect, spoken by many of its German former inhabitants, …

During the conquest of the Prussian Sambians by the Teutonic Knights in 1255, an Old Prussian fort Twangste was destroyed and replaced with a new fortress known as Königsberg. The …

Königsberg Castle (Russian: Кёнигсбергский замок, romanized: Kyonigsbergskiy zamok, German: Königsberger Schloss) was the seat of the grand masters of the Teutonic Order and …