Mendeleyevo Microdistrict

Postcard of Juditten Church, ca. 1908

Mendeleyevo (Russian: Менделеево) is part of the Tsentralny District in Kaliningrad, Russia. Until 1947, it was known by its German name Juditten (Lithuanian: Judyčių; Polish: Judyty) as first a suburb of and then a quarter of Königsberg, Germany. Juditten Church was a site of pilgrimage since the Middle Ages. The philosopher Johann Christoph Gottsched was born in Juditten in 1700.