Lawsken

Lawsken was a suburban village and then quarter of Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of Kaliningrad, Russia.

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[1] or Lauchsen.[2]

The road Juditter Allee from Juditten became Lawsker Allee as it passed eastward through Lawsken. Lawsker Allee continued east through Ratshof and Amalienau before becoming Hufenallee in Mittelhufen. North of Lawsken was Friedrichswalde, while Holstein 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 Prussian saying "In Lawsken werden die Fische nur auf Einer Seite gebraten" ("fish are cooked only on one side in Lawsken").[3] 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.[4]

Storks still nested in the vicinity ca. 1900.[1] Part of eastern Lawsken was incorporated into Königsberg on 1 April 1905, with the remainder merged into the provincial capital on 21 February 1911.

Notes
  1. Albinus, p. 198
  2. Boetticher, p. 14
  3. Wander, p. 1543
  4. Frischbier, p. 340
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gollark: I'm comparing it to USB-A for point 4.
gollark: <@!111608748027445248> - Too many different things over identical looking physical connectors: a "USB-C" port might support power-delivery *input*, power-delivery *output*, Thunderbolt, two different incompatible kinds of video output, and various speeds from USB 2.0 to USB 3.2 Gen2x2 (whyyy).- The ports on devices can end up wearing out problematically, though I don't know if this is better or worse than on competitors like Lightning or µUSB.- A lot of peripherals still don't support it, though this is hardly *its* fault.- I think the smaller connector means you can't put as much weight on it safely, for bigger USB stick-y devices, though I am not sure about this.

References
  • Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
  • Bötticher, Adolf (1897). Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Ostpreußen (in German). Königsberg: Rautenberg. p. 395.
  • Frischbier, Hermann Karl (1882). Preussisches Wörterbuch: Ost- und westpreussische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge, Erster Band (in German). Berlin: Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin. p. 452.
  • Wander, Karl Friedrich Wilhelm (1880). Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon (in German). Leipzig: F. A. Brockhaus. pp. 1824.

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