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Is this where Mary Kelly got her last meal?
Some people see things as they are and ask: "Why?"
I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?" - Kennedy -
formerly the 'Moose' café where Russians tourists now stroll by the seasideAttached FilesComment
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Zum Elch "the Moose" café back in the dayComment
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Drying flounderComment
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Cranz, a short ways from Konigsberg
Cranz fountain, today in the Kalliningrad Oblast, a part of Russia.Comment
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The Roaring Twenties in the borderlands. Sign in Lithuanian and GermanComment
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Feeding a moose calf
Photo site curator Bernhard and his Lithuanian tour guide
Tilsit today, RussiaComment
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East Prussia at top far right. Konigsberg was the provincial capital.
The German Empire at its fullest extent before the First World War.Comment
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Looks like the not so Roaring Thirties to me, judging by the length of the women's skirts and their hats!Originally posted by Roy Corduroy View PostComment
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Thanks Curryong, yes you could be right. Photo was interwar, when Memel Land was reclaimed by Lithuania. The old railway station (banhof) is a private residence today.Originally posted by Curryong View Post
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Vilkyskiai, Lithuania celebrates the town charter
Note their coat of arms represents the Salzburg refugees who arrived in the 1700's when this was Willkischken, East Prussia.Comment
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What is the proportion of ethnic Germans there today, I wonder? Was that part of the population subject to all that ethnic cleansing of Germans that occurred in other countries/states the minute World War Two ended? Off to look it up!Comment
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In the 19th century the Kingdom of Prussia vied with the ailing Austrian Empire for leadership of the Germanic lands. The Prussians defeated the Austrians in a war and shortly afterwards set up a new country - Germany. Prussia was part of that country.
It is ironic that today, Austria still exists as a country, while the name 'Prussia' seems hardly to be mentioned, except in history books.Comment
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