The Löbenicht Town Hall (german: Löbenichtsches Rathaus) was the

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Löbenicht View of Löbenicht from the Pregel, including its church and gymnasium, as well as the nearby Propsteikirche Löbenicht ( lt, Lyvenikė; pl, Lipnik) was a quarter of central Königsberg, Germany. During the Middle Ages it was the weakest of ...

, first an independent town and later a quarter of

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. In the 19th century it was used for newspaper printing. The town hall was located at the intersection of Löbenichtsche Langgasse and Münchengasse. It is unknown when it was originally built, but construction on the

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building was documented in 1592. After the merger of Löbenicht, Altstadt, and

Kneiphof Coat of arms of Kneiphof Postcard of Kneiphöfsche Langgasse Reconstruction of Kneiphof in Kaliningrad's museum Kneiphof (russian: Кнайпхоф; pl, Knipawa; lt, Knypava) was a quarter of central Königsberg (Kaliningrad). During the M ...

into Königsberg in 1724 and the selection of

Kneiphof Town Hall Kneiphof Town Hall (german: Kneiphöfisches Rathaus) was the town hall of insular Kneiphof, first an independent town and later a quarter of Königsberg, Germany. It served as Königsberg's city hall from 1724 to 1927, after which it became a mus ...

as the new city hall, Löbenicht's town hall was used by the city treasury. The building had to be reconstructed after a conflagration on 11 November 1764. It was used subsequently rented by the brewery guilds and the bookseller Johann Jacob Kanter, who allowed

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to live in the

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attic in 1769. It was purchased by the printer Gottlieb Leberecht Hartung in 1788, who used it to publish his newspaper, later known as the '' Königsberger Hartungsche Zeitung'', the following year. The building was damaged again by fire in 1876. The ''Hartungsche Zeitung'' and the '' Königsberger Tageblatt'' were published in the former town hall until 1906, when it was damaged by fire and the printers moved to Münchenhofplatz between Löbenicht and Altstadt. The building was destroyed by the 1944

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and 1945

Battle of Königsberg The Battle of Königsberg, also known as the Königsberg offensive, was one of the last operations of the East Prussian offensive during World War II. In four days of urban warfare, Soviet forces of the 1st Baltic Front and the 3rd Belorussia ...

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