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. It was formerly known by its

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names Schönfliess and Schönfließ as first a suburban village and then a quarter of

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, located southeast of the city center. Schönfliess was located southeast of Speichersdorf, southwest of

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, and west of Seligenfeld. Medieval Schönfliess contained a hospital, which was purchased by

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in 1521.

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, then granted the farming village to Kneiphof on 10 May 1528. The village's farmers worked the estate of Rosenau. Schönfliess was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in 1939.Albinus, p. 280 Königsberg was transferred to

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control in 1945 after

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. Königsberg was subsequently renamed Kaliningrad and Schönfliess first became Komsomolsky gorodok () and then, in 1949, Komsomolskoye.

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* * Geography of Kaliningrad {{KaliningradOblast-geo-stub