Beydritten was first a suburban estate and then a
quarter A quarter is one-fourth, , 25% or 0.25.
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Placenames
* Quarter, South Lanarkshire, a settlement in Scotland
* Le Quartier, a settlement i ...
of
Königsberg
Königsberg (, ) was the historic Prussian city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named ...
,
Germany
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, located north of the city center. Its territory is now part of the
Leningradsky District Leningradsky District is the name of several administrative and municipal districts in Russia.
Districts of the federal subjects
* Leningradsky District, Krasnodar Krai, an administrative and municipal district of Krasnodar Krai
City divisions
* ...
of
Kaliningrad
Kaliningrad ( ; rus, Калининград, p=kəlʲɪnʲɪnˈɡrat, links=y), until 1946 known as Königsberg (; rus, Кёнигсберг, Kyonigsberg, ˈkʲɵnʲɪɡzbɛrk; rus, Короле́вец, Korolevets), is the largest city and ...
,
Russia
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.
The estate of Beydritten was situated north of the Ringchaussee and
Ballieth Ballieth was first a suburban estate and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany, located north of the city center. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia.
Ballieth was situated on the road Samitter Allee, whic ...
and west of
Quednau. Documented in 1389 as ''Bayderithen'', its name was of
Old Prussian origin and referred to a personal name. The estate had its own school. The fort IV Geisenau, named in 1894, was built near Beydritten as part of the new
Königsberg fortifications
The fortifications of the former East Prussian capital Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) consist of numerous defensive walls, forts, bastions and other structures. They make up the First and the Second Defensive Belt, built in 1626—1634 and 1843� ...
constructed from 1872 to 1894.
[Gause II, p. 630] Beydritten was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in April 1939.
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Former subdivisions of Königsberg
Populated places established in the 1380s
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