Heydekrug Explained

Heydekrug may refer to places in former East Prussia:

• Šilutė, now Lithuania, the site of Stalag Luft VI - a World War II German allied aircrew POW camp
• Landkreis Heydekrug

Former district of East Prussia until 1945

• Places now in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, the sites of the Battle of Königsberg at the Vistula Lagoon to the west of Königsberg:
  • Groß-Heydekrug (now Vzmorye)
  • Klein-Heydekrug (probably Cherepanovo)