Best Attractions & Things to do in Kaliningrad , Russia
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List of Best Things to do in Kaliningrad
Curonian Spit
B-413 Submarine Museum
Altes Haus
Research vessel Vityaz
Fort No 11 Denkhoff
Konigsberg Cathedral
Verkhneye Lake
Museum of the World Ocean
Friedland Gates Museum
Fort 5 King Fredric-Wilhelm the Third
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Episode 79 (English) - Frederick William III./Friedrich Wilhelm III. (1/2) - 1770-1810
Friedrich Wilhelm III./Frederick William III. was Prussian King between 1797 and 1840. His reign was dominated by events like the napoleonic wars, the collapse of Prussia and its rebirth during the so-called War of Liberation. After 1815 Friedrich Wilhelm III. tried to maintain the status of Prussia without taking any risks in the fields of internal politics or foreign affairs. He was the last Prussian monarch who ruled absolutely, meaning without a constitution, throughout his entire reign. Let's take a look at his life.
Part 2:
World Heritage in Potsdam #04 - Prussian & Russian heritage
Das Neue Palais., built in 1763-1769. Frederick the Great wanted to show the world that Prussia after the Seven Years War still had plenty of cash. Nothing was however further from the truth, Prussia was completely bankrupt.
The king also collected paintings, he even had a museum built around them. He granted his Italian and Dutch masters the best of the best. You run into paintings of Michelangelo, Rubens and van Dijk, hung in Baroque style. In fact this was the first form of museum building in Germany.
The Alexander chapel is in the Russian neighbourhood of Alexandrowka, an area with many original Russian houses, that king Friedrich Wilhelm the Third had built to house 62 former prisoners of war of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen, pronounced [ˈɔstˌpʁɔʏsən] (listen); Polish: Prusy Wschodnie; Lithuanian: Rytų Prūsija; Latin: Borussia orientalis; Russian: Восточная Пруссия) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad). East Prussia was the main part of the region of Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Coast.East Prussia enclosed the bulk of the ancestral lands of the Baltic Old Prussians. During the 13th century, the native Prussians were conquered by the crusading Teutonic Knights. After the conquest the indigenous Balts were gradually converted to Christianity. Because of Germanization and colonisation over the following centuries, Germans became the dominant ethnic group, while Masurians and Lithuanians formed minorities. From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights. After the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466 it became a fief of the Kingdom of Poland. In 1525, with the Prussian Homage, the province became the Duchy of Prussia. The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century.Because the duchy was outside of the core Holy Roman Empire, the prince-electors of Brandenburg were able to proclaim themselves King beginning in 1701. After the annexation of most of western Royal Prussia in the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772, eastern (ducal) Prussia was connected by land with the rest of the Prussian state and was reorganized as a province the following year (1773). Between 1829 and 1878, the Province of East Prussia was joined with West Prussia to form the Province of Prussia.
The Kingdom of Prussia became the leading state of the German Empire after its creation in 1871. However, the Treaty of Versailles following World War I granted West Prussia to Poland and made East Prussia an exclave of Weimar Germany (the new Polish Corridor separating East Prussia from the rest of Germany), while the Memel Territory was detached and was annexed by Lithuania in 1923. Following Nazi Germany's defeat in World War II in 1945, war-torn East Prussia was divided at Joseph Stalin's insistence between the Soviet Union (the Kaliningrad Oblast in the Russian SFSR and the constituent counties of the Klaipėda Region in the Lithuanian SSR) and the People's Republic of Poland (the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship). The capital city Königsberg was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946. The German population of the province was largely evacuated during the war or expelled shortly thereafter in the expulsion of Germans after World War II. An estimated 300,000 (around one fifth of the population) died either in war time bombings raids, in the battles to defend the province or through mistreatment by the Red Army.
Königsberg | Wikipedia audio article
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Königsberg
00:03:19 1 History
00:03:28 1.1 Sambians
00:03:52 1.2 Teutonic Order
00:07:54 1.3 Duchy of Prussia
00:10:09 1.4 Brandenburg-Prussia
00:12:47 1.5 Kingdom of Prussia
00:14:02 1.6 Russian Empire
00:14:50 1.7 Kingdom of Prussia
00:18:05 1.8 Weimar Republic
00:18:37 1.9 Nazi Germany
00:20:50 1.9.1 Persecution of Jews under the Nazi regime
00:21:43 1.9.2 Persecution of Poles during World War II
00:23:22 1.9.3 Destruction in World War II
00:26:08 1.10 Soviet/Russian Kaliningrad
00:26:41 2 Demographics
00:28:49 2.1 Jews
00:30:34 2.2 Lithuanians
00:31:02 2.3 Poles
00:34:55 3 Culture and society of Königsberg
00:35:05 3.1 Notable people
00:36:13 3.2 Languages
00:36:49 3.3 The visual and performing arts
00:37:57 3.4 Königsberg Castle
00:38:31 3.5 A center of education
00:39:01 3.6 A multiethnic and multicultural metropolis
00:40:38 3.7 Sports
00:41:17 3.8 Cuisine
00:41:59 4 Fortifications
00:43:06 5 See also
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Königsberg (German pronunciation: [ˈkøːnɪçsˌbɛɐ̯k]) is the name for a former German city that is now Kaliningrad, Russia. Originally a Sambian or Old Prussian city, it later belonged to the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia, the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany until 1945. After being largely destroyed in World War II by Allied bombing and
Soviet forces and annexed by the Soviet Union thereafter, the city was renamed Kaliningrad. Few traces of the former Königsberg remain today.
The literal meaning of Königsberg is 'King’s Mountain'. In the local Low German dialect, spoken by many of its German former inhabitants, the name was Kenigsbarg (pronounced [ˈkʰeːnɪçsbarç]). Further names included Russian: Кёнигсберг, Королевец, tr. Kyonigsberg, Korolevets, Old Prussian: Kunnegsgarbs, Knigsberg, Lithuanian: Karaliaučius, Polish: Królewiec and Yiddish: קעניגסבערג Kenigsberg.
Königsberg was founded in 1255 on the site of the ancient Old Prussian settlement Twangste by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, and was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia. A Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of their monastic state, the Duchy of Prussia (1525–1701) and East Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy, though the capital was moved to Berlin in 1701.
A university city, home of the Albertina University (founded in 1544), Königsberg developed into an important German intellectual and cultural centre, being the residence of Simon Dach, Immanuel Kant, Käthe Kollwitz, E. T. A. Hoffmann, David Hilbert, Agnes Miegel, Hannah Arendt, Michael Wieck and others.
Between the thirteenth and the twentieth centuries, the inhabitants spoke predominantly German, but the multicultural city also had a profound influence on the Lithuanian and Polish cultures. The city was a publishing centre of Lutheran literature, including the first Polish translation of the New Testament, printed in the city in 1551, the first book in the Lithuanian language and the first Lutheran catechism, both printed in Königsberg in 1547.
Königsberg was the easternmost large city in Germany until World War II. The city was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1944 and during the Battle of Königsberg in 1945; it was then captured and occupied by the Soviet Union on 9 April 1945. Its German population was expelled, and the city was repopulated with Russians and others from the Soviet Union. Briefly Russified as Kyonigsberg (Кёнигсберг), it was renamed Kaliningrad in 1946 in honour of Soviet leader Mikhail Kalinin. It is now the capital of Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast, an enclave bordered in the north by Lithuania and in the south by Poland.
There has been some discussion of the territory's current legal status, although this is largely academic. The Potsdam Agreement placed it provisionally under Soviet administration, but did not me ...
History of Germany | Wikipedia audio article
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00:06:46 1 Prehistory
00:08:00 2 Germanic tribes, 750 BC – 768 AD
00:08:13 2.1 Migration and conquest
00:11:16 2.2 Stem Duchies and Marches
00:12:56 2.3 Frankish Empire
00:16:44 3 Middle Ages
00:16:52 3.1 Foundation of the Holy Roman Empire
00:18:17 3.2 Otto the Great
00:20:54 3.3 Hanseatic League
00:21:36 3.4 Eastward expansion
00:22:10 3.5 Church and state
00:26:25 3.6 Change and reform
00:28:11 3.7 Towns and cities
00:30:00 3.8 Women
00:31:15 3.9 Science and culture
00:32:56 4 Early modern Germany
00:33:11 4.1 Reformation
00:35:56 4.2 Thirty Years War, 1618–1648
00:37:55 4.3 Culture and literacy
00:39:54 4.4 Science
00:40:53 5 1648–1815
00:41:58 5.1 Wars
00:44:14 5.2 Smaller states
00:46:45 5.3 Nobility
00:47:38 5.4 Peasants and rural life
00:50:59 5.5 Bourgeois values spread to rural Germany
00:52:39 5.6 Enlightenment
00:55:39 5.6.1 Women
00:56:50 5.7 French Revolution, 1789–1815
01:00:44 6 1815–1867
01:00:55 6.1 Overview
01:01:53 6.2 German Confederation
01:02:50 6.3 Society and economy
01:02:59 6.3.1 Population
01:04:19 6.3.2 Industrialization
01:05:54 6.3.3 Urbanization
01:07:00 6.3.4 Railways
01:08:46 6.3.5 Newspapers and magazines
01:09:51 6.3.6 Science and culture
01:12:27 6.3.7 Religion
01:15:35 6.4 Politics of restoration and revolution
01:15:45 6.4.1 After Napoleon
01:17:43 6.4.2 1848
01:18:32 6.4.3 1850s
01:19:12 6.4.4 Bismarck takes charge, 1862–1866
01:21:13 6.4.5 North German Federation, 1866–1871
01:21:54 7 German Empire, 1871–1918
01:22:06 7.1 Overview
01:23:53 7.2 Age of Bismarck
01:24:01 7.2.1 The new empire
01:27:33 7.2.2 Classes
01:27:41 7.2.2.1 Aristocracy
01:29:50 7.2.2.2 Middle class
01:30:35 7.2.2.3 Working class
01:31:52 7.2.3 Kulturkampf
01:34:14 7.2.4 Foreign policy
01:37:06 7.3 Wilhelminian Era
01:37:14 7.3.1 Wilhelm II.
01:38:08 7.3.2 Alliances and diplomacy
01:41:05 7.3.3 Economy
01:43:20 7.3.4 Women
01:44:33 7.3.5 Colonies
01:45:24 7.4 World War I
01:45:33 7.4.1 Causes
01:47:13 7.4.2 Western Front
01:48:17 7.4.3 Eastern Front
01:49:13 7.4.4 1918
01:50:01 7.5 Homefront
01:51:17 7.6 Revolution 1918
01:54:40 8 Weimar Republic, 1919–1933
01:54:52 8.1 Overview
01:56:08 8.2 The early years
01:59:27 8.3 Reparations
02:00:47 8.4 Economic collapse and political problems, 1929–1933
02:02:58 8.5 Science and culture
02:04:48 9 Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
02:06:25 9.1 Establishment of the Nazi regime
02:10:20 9.2 Antisemitism and the Holocaust
02:12:30 9.3 Military
02:13:23 9.4 Women
02:15:27 9.5 Foreign policy
02:18:01 9.6 World War II
02:20:34 10 Germany during the Cold War, 1945–1990
02:21:45 10.1 Post-war chaos
02:26:02 10.2 East Germany
02:30:08 10.3 West Germany (Bonn Republic)
02:31:10 10.3.1 Economic miracle
02:32:28 10.3.2 1948 currency reform
02:34:38 10.3.3 Adenauer
02:35:34 10.3.4 Erhard
02:37:26 10.3.5 Grand coalition
02:38:06 10.3.6 Guest workers
02:39:09 10.3.7 Brandt and Ostpolitik
02:40:33 10.3.8 Economic crisis of 1970s
02:43:13 10.4 Kohl
02:43:59 10.5 Reunification
02:45:13 11 Federal Republic of Germany, 1990–present
02:45:24 11.1 Schröder
02:46:21 11.2 Merkel
02:49:01 12 Historiography
02:49:10 12.1 Sonderweg debate
02:50:38 13 See also
02:50:47 14 Notes
02:50:55 14.1 Footnotes
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The concept of Germany as a distinct region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire, although the Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were established along the Rhine. Following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks conqu ...