Rothenstein (Königsberg)

Rothenstein was first a suburb of and then a quarter of northeastern Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia.

Rothenstein was located northeast of the

Kummerau

by Rothensteiner Straße.

A retirement and nursing home opened in Rothenstein in 1914. A munitions explosion at Rothenstein's munitions factory caused the death of 200 workers on 10 April 1920; Friedrich Lahrs and Stanislaus Cauer designed a memorial in the nearby Gemeindefriedhof cemetery to honor the victims. The architect Kurt Frick developed the housing development Siedlung Rothenstein after his return to Königsberg in 1921. Rothenstein was incorporated into the city of Königsberg by 1927.

After the

internment camp in Rothenstein. Michael Wieck

was among the incarcerated.

References

Gause, Fritz (1968). Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg. Band II: Von der Königskrönung bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs (in German). Köln: Böhlau Verlag. p. 761.
ISBN 3-412-38871-8
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54°44′17″N 20°31′42″E / 54.73806°N 20.52833°E / 54.73806; 20.52833

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