Krasnolesye
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Krasnolesye (Russian: Краснолесье, Krasnoles'e; German: Rominten, Groß-Rominten, Hardteck; Polish: Rominty Wielkie; Lithuanian: Raminta, Rominta) is a small town situated at the river Krasnoja (Rominta) in Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast close to the border to Poland. East of Krasnolesye lies Lake Vistytis.
The village goes back to a hunting lodge which was first mentioned in a document of 1572. The village later became a colony of tar distillers. Rominten had already been a hunting place for Prince Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1683. The region was elevated to an Imperial Court Hunting District by German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1890. The emperor's hunting castle was built in 1891. After World War I Rominten remained a state hunting district. In 1936 the hunting castle, now a "Reichsjägerhof", was remodeled to suit the desires of Hermann Göring who used it until the arrival of the Red Army in 1944. In 1938 Groß-Rominten was renamed Hardteck. When East Prussia was divided between Russia and Poland after World War II, Rominten became part of the Soviet Union. In 1947 it was renamed Krasnoles'e (Red Woods).de:Krasnolesje