Lawsken was a suburban village and then quarter of

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. Its territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of

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History

According to the 1286 charter of Altstadt, the town was granted control of a stretch of land ( Hufen) from the Pregel River northward until the fields of an Old Prussian village known as ''Lauxken''Albinus, p. 198 or ''Lauchsen''. The road Juditter Allee from Juditten became Lawsker Allee as it passed eastward through Lawsken. Lawsker Allee continued east through Ratshof and

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before becoming Hufenallee in Mittelhufen. North of Lawsken was

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, while

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lay farther to the southwest along the Pregel. Because Lawsken's houses were once built only on one side of Lawsker Allee, there existed the

East Prussia East Prussia ; german: Ostpreißen, label= Low Prussian; pl, Prusy Wschodnie; lt, Rytų Prūsija was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1 ...

n saying ''"In Lawsken werden die Fische nur auf Einer Seite gebraten"'' ("fish are cooked only on one side in Lawsken"). Königsberg's citizens jokingly referred to the farmers of Lawsken and Metgethen as ''Kartoffelhengste'' (potato stallions), referring to the villagers' supplying of potatoes to the city.Frischbier, p. 340 Storks still nested in the vicinity ca. 1900. Part of eastern Lawsken was incorporated into Königsberg on 1 April 1905, with the remainder merged into the provincial capital on 21 February 1911.

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* * * * {{coord, 54, 42, 44, N, 20, 26, 31, E, region:RU-KGD_type:city_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title 1286 establishments in Europe Former subdivisions of Königsberg Populated places established in the 13th century