Pavlovo (Baltiysk)

 quarter (urban subdivision), invisible

Pavlovo (Russ. Па́влово, also imeni Pawlowa, until 1946 German Lochstädt, Prussian Lochstete) is a part of Baltiisk (form. Pillau) in the Oblast Kaliningrad (Russia). The village is on southern part of the peninsula of Samland, between Primorsk (Fischhausen) and Baltiisk at the Vistula Lagoon. Here are the ruins of one of the largest castles of the German Knights Order, the castle of Lochstädt. This castle was of main importance for guarding the maritime traffic at the Lagoon. The village was first named Witland at the end of the 9th century AD by Wulfstan. In 1246 the place was called "castrum Witlandesort quod dicitur nunc Locstete. Laukstyte was one of the Prussian noblemen from Witlandsort. The Prussian name is related to the blinking water (laukstits: bright, blinking). When the city of Pillau was founded the castle was partly destroyed; more destruction followed during WW2. In the 1990s, archaeologists thought that in the ruins was a part of the Amber Room.