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| • | Sovetsk (Russian: Советск; until 1946 German: Tilsit. Lithuanian: Tilžė) is a town on the Neman River in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, which until 1945 was part of East Prussia. It is located at , and has 43,278 inhabitants (2004).
Tilsit, which received civic rights in 1552, grew up around a castle of the Teutonic order, known as the Schalauner Haus, founded in 1288. It owes most of its interest to the peace treaty signed here in July 1807, the preliminaries of which were settled by the emperors Alexander and Napoleon on a raft moored in the Neman. This treaty, which constituted the kingdom of Westphalia and the duchy of Warsaw, registers the nadir of Prussia's humiliation under Napoleon. During the XIX century when Lithuanian language was banned in Russia, Tilsit was an important center for printing Lithuanian books which then were smuggled by Knygnešiai to the Russian occupied part of Lithuania. In general, Tilsit thrived back then and was an important city. After World War 2 Sovetsk lost its importance however and did not grow, now it is not center of district, but a part of Neman district.
The poet Max von Schenkendorf was born at Tilsit in 1784; John Kay, lead singer of the popular late 1960s rock band Steppenwolf, was also born there, in 1944. Hitler visited the town just before the start of World War II, and there is a famous picture of him on the bridge over the river. Modern Sovetsk has tried to keep Tilsit's rich traditions of cheese production (Tilsiter, Sovetsky).
Although great numbers of buildings were destroyed during World War 2 and afterwards, some examples of German Jugend style (German form of Art Noveau) still remains in the center, reminding of the golden age of city. The bridge of Queen Louise, now connecting the city to Panemunė in Lithuania,
Source: [wikipedia: sovetsk, kaliningrad oblast]
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