'''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''<ref name="A198">Albinus, p. 198</ref> or ''Lauchsen''.<ref>Boetticher, p. 14</ref>
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").<ref>Wander, p. 1543</ref> 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.<ref>Frischbier, p. 340</ref>
Storks still nested in the vicinity ca. 1900.<ref name="A198"/> Part of eastern Lawsken was incorporated into Königsberg on 1 April 1905, with the remainder merged into the provincial capital on 21 February 1911.
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==References== *{{cite book|last=Albinus|first=Robert|title=Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung|year=1985|publisher=Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg|location=Leer|pages=371|isbn=3-7921-0320-6|language=de}} *{{cite book|last=Bötticher|first=Adolf|author-link=Adolf Bötticher|title=Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Provinz Ostpreußen|year=1897|publisher=Rautenberg|location=Königsberg|pages=395|language=de}} *{{cite book|last=Frischbier|first=Hermann Karl|author-link=Hermann Frischbier|title=Preussisches Wörterbuch: Ost- und westpreussische Provinzialismen in alphabetischer Folge, Erster Band|year=1882|publisher=Verlag von Th. Chr. Fr. Enslin|location=Berlin|pages=452|language=de}} *{{cite book|last=Wander|first=Karl Friedrich Wilhelm|author-link=Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander|title=Deutsches Sprichwörter-Lexikon|url=https://archive.org/details/deutschessprich00wandgoog|year=1880|publisher=F. A. Brockhaus|location=Leipzig|pages=[https://archive.org/details/deutschessprich00wandgoog/page/n930 1824]|language=de}}
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Category:1286 establishments in Europe Category:Former subdivisions of Königsberg Category:Populated places established in the 13th century