# Lawsken

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'''Lawsken''' was a suburban village and then [quarter](/source/Quarter_(urban_subdivision)) of [Königsberg](/source/K%C3%B6nigsberg), [Germany](/source/Germany). Its territory is now part of the [Tsentralny District](/source/Tsentralny_Administrative_District%2C_Kaliningrad) of [Kaliningrad](/source/Kaliningrad), [Russia](/source/Russia).

==History==

According to the 1286 charter of [Altstadt](/source/Altstadt_(K%C3%B6nigsberg)), the town was granted control of a stretch of land ([Hufen](/source/Hufen)) from the [Pregel](/source/Pregolya) River northward until the fields of an [Old Prussian](/source/Old_Prussians) village known as ''Lauxken''<ref name="A198">Albinus, p. 198</ref> or ''Lauchsen''.<ref>Boetticher, p. 14</ref>

The road Juditter Allee from [Juditten](/source/Mendeleyevo_Microdistrict) became Lawsker Allee as it passed eastward through Lawsken. Lawsker Allee continued east through [Ratshof](/source/Ratshof) and [Amalienau](/source/Amalienau) before becoming Hufenallee in [Mittelhufen](/source/Mittelhufen). North of Lawsken was [Friedrichswalde](/source/Friedrichswalde_(K%C3%B6nigsberg)), while [Holstein](/source/Holstein_(K%C3%B6nigsberg)) 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 Prussia](/source/East_Prussia)n 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](/source/Metgethen) as ''Kartoffelhengste'' (potato stallions), referring to the villagers' supplying of potatoes to the city.<ref>Frischbier, p. 340</ref>

[Stork](/source/Stork)s 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.

==Notes==
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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

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