{{for|the Polish village known in German as Molditten|Mołdyty}} '''Moditten''' was first a suburb of and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany. Its territory is now part of the Tsentralny District in Kaliningrad, Russia.
Moditten was located between Juditten to the east and Metgethen to the west; farther to the south along the Pregel was Holstein. It was documented in 1258 as ''Maudytyn'' and in 1389 as ''Maydithen'', names of Old Prussian origin.<ref>Gerullis, p. 96</ref> The ''Spittler'', an official of the Teutonic Knights in charge of hospital affairs, possessed the Spittelhof manor near Moditten. It was later owned by Johann Schimmelpfennig (1604-69), a Königsberg councillor and vice-mayor of Kneiphof. The philosopher Immanuel Kant was good friends with the Moditten forester Wobeser; the summer house in which Kant stayed has been preserved.<ref>Gause II, p. 248</ref> Moditten's forestry house was visited by tourists and praised for its ''Kopskiekelwein'', a type of currant wine.<ref>Albinus, p. 214</ref>
Moditten was incorporated into the city of Königsberg in 1939.
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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=Gause|first=Fritz|author-link=Fritz Gause|title=Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg. Band I: Von der Gründung der Stadt bis zum letzten Kurfürsten|year=1965|publisher=Böhlau Verlag|location=Köln|pages=571|language=de}} *{{cite book|last=Gause|first=Fritz|author-link=Fritz Gause|title=Die Geschichte der Stadt Königsberg. Band II: Von der Königskrönung bis zum Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs|year=1968|publisher=Böhlau Verlag|location=Köln|pages=761|language=de}} *{{cite book|last=Gerullis|first=Georg|title=Die altpreußischen Ortsnamen gesammelt und sprachlich behandelt|year=1922|publisher=Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher Verleger|location=Berlin und Leipzig|pages=286|language=de}}
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