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2 unusual facts about Province of East Prussia


Bagrationovsky District

Another line, the former East Prussian Southern Railway, connects Kaliningrad with Polish Bartoszyce via Bagrationovsk; however, passenger service was discontinued in 2011.

Province of East Prussia

The French troops immediately took up pursuit but were rejected in the Battle of Eylau on 9 February 1807 by an East Prussian contingent under General Anton Wilhelm von L'Estocq.


Bundesstraße 1

After Napoleonic Wars and the Empire's dissolution in 1806, the Prussian monarchs systematically expanded the road network, completing the chaussee between Berlin and Magdeburg in 1824, and between Berlin and Königsberg in 1828, reaching the East Prussian terminus at Gumbinnen (present-day Gusev, Russia) in 1835.

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann

Friedrich Gustav von Bramann (September 25, 1854 – April 21, 1913) was a German surgeon born in Wilhelmsberg near Darkehmen, East Prussia.


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Chris Nowotny

Nowotny was born and grew up until her teennage years in Königsberg in the former German province of East-Prussia (today better known as Kaliningrad / Russia).