Ratshof and the Pregel River from the south. View of the Pregel from the west. Ratshof is in the lower left, Contienen in the lower right, and the 1920s-era docks are the upper right Ratshof or Rathshof was a suburban

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of western

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. Its territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of

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History

Public baths along the pond Hammerteich. The estate Propsthof, in the broad

Hufen Hufen was a broad region along northwestern Königsberg, Germany, which developed into the quarters of Ratshof, Amalienau, Mittelhufen, and Vorderhufen. The territory is now part of the Tsentralny District of Kaliningrad, Russia. History Hufen's ...

region between Altstadt and

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 ...

, was established by the

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. In 1533

Altstadt Church Altstadt Church (german: Altstädtische Kirche) was a medieval church in the Altstadt quarter of Königsberg, Germany. It was dismantled during the 1820s and replaced with New Altstadt Church. History The originally Roman Catholic parish church ...

sold Propsthof to the Altstadt councilor Bernhard Betner. The estate was subsequently known as Ratshubenhof and then Ratshof; it is unknown if it was renamed in honor of Betner himself or the Altstadt town council (''Rat'').Gause I, p. 232 It was also known as ''Altstädtischer Ratshof'' to differentiate it from ''Kneiphöfischer Ratshof'' near Rosenau in southern Königsberg. In 1586 Ratshof was owned by Urban Rodemann. Over centuries Ratshof functioned as an iron forge, a farming estate, an upper class establishment, and a children's nursing facility.Albinus, p. 253 Also in the vicinity were the Hammerteich pond and the beloved Hammerkrug inn. In 1806 the estate was acquired by the bailiff Wendland of Kaporn, who expanded it with land from the nearby Wilky forest and converted Ratshof into a large estate in 1817. From 1843 to 1883 it was owned by the Batocki family.Gause II, p. 404 In 1849 the Hammerkrug inn was purchased by councilor Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe. At the end of the 19th century, Allgemeine-Wohnungs-Bauverein, a private development company, developed Ratshof into a ''Gartenstadt'' according to the

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. By 1905 the growing suburb was incorporated into the city of Königsberg (Stadtkreis Königsberg i. Pr.). In 1916 the

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moved from

Neue Sorge Königstraße Neue Sorge, also known as Königstraße or Königstrasse after its main boulevard, was a quarter of eastern Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the Leningradsky District of Kaliningrad, Russia. Etymology The origina ...

to Ratshof. The quarter's stadium, Sportplatz Hammerteich, hosted the football club

SpVgg ASCO Königsberg SpVgg ASCO Königsberg was a German association football club from the city of Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). The club was formed in 1919 out of the merger of ''Sportclub Ostpreußen 1902 Königsberg'' and ''Akademischer S ...

Ratshof Church Ratshof Church, c. 1940 Ratshof Church (german: Ratshöfer Kirche) or Christuskirche (Christ Church) was a Protestant church in western Königsberg, Germany. It was the final church constructed in the city before it became Russian Kaliningrad. T ...

was constructed in 1937. In southern Ratshof on the northern shore of the Pregel River were the Waggonfabrik factory of L. Steinfurt, warehouses, a pulp mill, and a chemical factory.

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* * * * {{coord, 54, 43, 11, N, 20, 27, 14, E, region:RU-KGD_type:landmark_source:kolossus-dewiki, display=title Former subdivisions of Königsberg