• The Old Prussian language had become extinct by the 17th or early 18th century. In 1939 East Prussia had 2.49 million inhabitants, 85% of them ethnic Germans, the others Poles in the south, or Lietuvininkai...
  • Alona, Königsberg was the capital of what was until 1945 the Prussian province of East Prussia (in German: Ostpreussen).East Prussia was located on the...
  • This collection includes recorded sermons given at funerals of people who from or died in Königsberg, East Prussia between 1597 and 1794.
  • From the 13th century, East Prussia was part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, which became the Duchy of Prussia in 1525.
  • After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, Königsberg became the capital of the province of East Prussia in 1773, which replaced the Province of Prussia in 1773.
  • Along with the extreme northern sector of East Prussia, Königsberg then passed to the sovereignty of the U.S.S.R. The new city—renamed Kaliningrad in...