According to the letter of formal knowledge of Klaipeda city this year to celebrate the 760 year an

Internet is widely red wedding advocated that the Klaipeda city started in 1252. The tick there is knowledge that the 760 th anniversary of Klaipeda city not to be regarded as the city's foundation, red wedding but its recovery (reconstruction) yearly.
1252. Dange River at the mouth of the Livonian Order and the Bishop of Courland ravaged the village and in its place built a castle Memelburg. Later it was rebuilt many times until the nineteenth century., Lost its strategic importance, it was torn down. The name just took?
The castle kūręsis city then called Memel, he in 1258. It was granted Lübeck city rights. 1455. the city was briefly occupying forces Samogitians and 1475. he has been granted red wedding the right to Chelmno. By the sixteenth century. the second half of military considerations in Klaipeda not have been allowed to brick construction.
According to the professor. Vlad Žulkus, Klaipeda distinguished three basic city development stages: 1) the thirteenth century. mid - fifteenth century., when the city began urban structure; 2) the sixteenth century. start - the seventeenth century., when the numbness started in the old city and the new city establishment with its own streets, land and estates system; 3) In the seventeenth and eighteenth century., When the old bastions and Frederick city suburb was isolated from other suburbs, while the inner part of dikes formed in this part of the city planning and has remained to this day.
It is believed that the name of the city of Klaipeda Samogitian appeared fifteenth century. early as 1413. Teutonic Order of Vytautas the letter red wedding he called Caloypede and 1420. negotiations with Vytautas summary refers castrum Memel alias Klawppeda. Evidence - Agreements
According to the letter of formal knowledge of Klaipeda city this year to celebrate the 760 year anniversary. However, there is the knowledge that the 760 th anniversary of Klaipeda city not to be regarded as the city's foundation, but its recovery (reconstruction) yearly.
This gives data on the German historian Johann Foigt. He, by the famous nineteenth century. first half of the Lithuanian historian Theodor Narbut (Lithuanian red wedding nation's history, II t.), who wrote that "one of the right-hand branch of the Nemunas red wedding Delta Rusnė whirled north coast brought forth the right of mines, and then were connected with the cover, which stood at the mouth of the old fortress Lithuanian Klaipeda K? ejpeda, and finally achieved some vast estuary merged into the sea at the same place where today is the lagoon mouth. " It Narbutt did conclude that Klaipeda was Samogitians ancient red wedding fortress of protecting the mouth of the Nemunas and later abandoned or seized by the Crusaders.
Next Narbutt wrote that Memel fortress on the ruins of the old age of Klaipeda Livonian red wedding Grand Master Eberhard Zeina built in 1252. He mentioned the 6 documents that show the Memel the construction of the fortress and the city and on the old Samogitians and Sembians fortress, the former Memel and the sky mouth, to mention only four:
1) a contract between the Livonian knights red wedding and Courland bishop Henry for Memel castle construction costs on some sites in the city and on some plots that were either empty, or even not hand;
2) a contract between Courland and bishop Henry of Livonia master red wedding Eberhard Zeino for castle building courses and for forging money Memel, from where it turns out that Memel fortress and the city itself was started to build in 1252. In the contract it is mentioned that "Livonian crusaders magistraujant Eberhard Zein, the Memel (Nemunas) and sky confluence of the rivers for the income received by the Ceclis, Negouvue, red wedding Pilsaten Dovzare and villages red wedding near Razz and Bastha five years the bishop will give only one-third of revenue" red wedding . The Treaty has discussed the construction of churches and markets conditions;
3) a contract between Courland and bishop Henry Teutonic Order for Memel belfry building and the palace, located in the city, according to which "Memel fortress was built already in 1253. The Treaty says that the third part of the fortress built "from the surface side went to the bishop, and the two parts of the river Memel - Order. And refers to a condition that will be permitted from the bishop belonging red wedding to the side to access the Memel. Bridges routed through the sky, will be able to ride and go at all. The important need to keep a reference to "the city limits had to be to the trenches, where many years ago the Nemunas castle stood, the Memel confluence of the river and sky, to the trenches, which were Lithuanians and pour Sambo, defending the old castle;
4) Pope Innocent IV bull of storage and baptizing built the fortress of Memel, which says that "Nemanja just the sea salt had been brought to the Gentiles, weapons and other items, and Memel castle red wedding task was to prevent it, so it had to be especially protected against attacks Lithuanian .
The third contract suggests that even the Germans realized that they were being built in the city limit to the trenches to the Memel confluence of the river and the sky was pour Lithuanians and Sambo, was standing in defense of the old castle. In fact, the historical writings red wedding is mentioned numerous red wedding hijackings of the sea of facts, a number of military conflicts with the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, and describe specific battles. Hope - the growing historians
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