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East Prussian Eydtkuhnen. East Prussian Eydtkuhnen was once the last German town on the railway route from Germany to Russia. In fact, even before the Russian Empire was connected to Germany by rail, people traveled to Europe on horseback through Eydtkuhnen, since the road across East Prussia to Berlin began (or ended, depending on which side ...
List of cities and towns in East Prussia, as used before 1945: Landkreis Marienburg (Westpr.) This article is a translation of the German Wikipedia's Liste der Städte in Ostpreußen article.
East Prussia [Note 1] was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Its capital city was Königsberg (present-day Kaliningrad).
Battle. On 15 August, François' men encountered First Army's reconnaissance units northeast of Stallupönen, and captured Eydtkuhnen that night as the Russians withdrew.
Jul 15, 2018 · On the western bank of the small river Lepone, there was Eydtkuhnen. It was situated on East Prussia’s eastern border with the Kingdom of Poland, the latter being part of the Russian Empire. The Poles used the name Ejtkuny, the Lithuanians Eitkūnai, and the Russians Eydtkuhnen (Эйдткуненъ).
- Jan Musekamp
- musekamp@europa-uni.de
- 2019
Eydtkuhnen. General information: First Jewish presence: early 1800s; peak Jewish population: 350 in 1880; Jewish population in 1933: under 90. Summary: Eydtkuhnen (present-day Chernyshevkoye, Russia) was an important border crossing between Russia and Germany.
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Eydtkuhnen was a town in East Prussia (Germany) and is now part of Russia (Chernyshevskoye). In 1880, the Jewish population numbered about 350. By 1925, the community had been reduced to about 120 persons.
