Memorial stone to Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia
The most famous and popular memorial stone of the Romintskaya Pushcha is located near the Oleniy Bridge in the former Rominten (now Raduzhnoye) in the direction of the former Imperial Hunting Lodge .
Inscription on the stone:
"The death of Prince Friedrich Carl von Preussen. If you stand in front of the building, you might want to wait until you reach the end of the line. 1869 - 1884»
Translation:
"In memory of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia. Here was the Teerbude forestry, where this nobleman stayed during his visit to the Romincka Forest from 1869 to 1884."
Coordinates:
54.363097, 22.543352
Prince Friedrich Karl Nikolai of Prussia ( 20 March 1828 – 15 June 1885) was a Prussian prince and Prussian and Russian field marshal. Prince Friedrich Karl was a passionate hunter and forest lover, and it was he who inspired his royal relative Wilhelm II to build a hunting lodge in the Rominten Forest. The "Red Prince" himself visited the Rominten Forest between 1869 and 1884, especially the Nassaven forestry. He also hunted in the Schittkemen and Warnen forestry districts. If not since the time of the Great Elector, then certainly since the time of Elector Georg Wilhelm, he was the first Hohenzollern to visit Rominten after a long break. Every year on September 24, he came to the Forest accompanied by his personal huntsman Böck, a servant and a pack of Hanoverian hounds and lived in the forester's house in Teerbude, on the left bank of the Rominta near the old wooden bridge. The prince loved the forest and often stayed in the forest, spending the night near a fire on a moss bed. His last hunt in the Forest took place in 1884. Another memorial stone was erected at the site of the deer he killed. In 1907, Wilhelm II erected a memorial stone in the Teerbude forestry in honor of his relative.
1. Because of his red Zieten hussar uniform, which Prince Friedrich Karl had proudly worn since the war with Austria (1866), he received the nickname "Red Prince" ( Rote Prinz ).