AngloKönigsberger

Making Königsberg into a comprihensible setting for English litriture.

[anglokonigsberger]

Welcome!

I'm planning a graphic novel series set in Königsberg in the early 1900's. For accuracy, I'm documenting interesting locations and buildings from the old city, and translating place names. A lot of the information necessary for writing a story set in Königsberg is not available in the English language, I'm in the process of learning German but I'm far from fluent, so I'll be using google translate to help with basic facts that are not available in English. It's time consuming to figure out what to look for when you don't have a readable map of the old city in front of you, and incase any other English speaker is also interested in the research I will be doing for my project, I felt it would be a good idea to make it a public blog.

[vintagegermany]

Pegau, Germany 1910/20

[anglokonigsberger]

Some Zeppelins flying over German cities, mostly in Koln this time. This mixture of technological innovation and tradition is excessively German.

[anglokonigsberger]

[anglokonigsberger]

Konigsberg and Berlin in snow.

[vintagegermany]

Würzburg, Germany 1900/20

[miamiextra]

Blood Court \ Blutgericht (1738 - 1945) - old wine cellar bar underneath the Königsberg Castle - survived until the end of the Battle of Königsberg, abandoned and blown up in 1969 with the castle remains.

[vintagegermany]

Weimar, Germany 1910/20

[vintagegermany]

Göttingen, Germany 1910s

[vintagegermany]

Quedlinburg, Germany 1900/20

[vintagegermany]

Cologne 1920s

[wordreamind]

[shnadik]

Russia/Kaliningrad

[prxssen]

Albertus-Universität Königsberg

founded by Herzog Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach in 1544

[prxssen]

Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz , Königsberg

[mostly-history]

Königsberg Cathedral (Kaliningrad, Russia).

This cathedral, situated on the island of Kneiphof in the Pregolya River, was built between 1330 and 1380 (work on the frescoes inside continued until the end of the century).

According to legend, mermaids live in the Pregolya River.  Kneiphof, one of Königsberg’s first settlements, was located on this island, and its first coat of arms had an arm rising from the river and stretching out a crown.  Other coats-of-arms showed mermaids as well. On the spire of the cathedral is a mermaid weathervane, and it has been said that its tail points to the place where a drowned person could be found.

[mim70]

Amalienau, Königsberg, Prussia (Kaliningrad, Russia)