In 1769 - 1770 already 300 dibbles were planted as the beginning of an avenue leading to the municipal brick barn, and another from the Gänsemarkt (goose-market) to the Roßgarten. The latter gradually grew to the today's Lindenallee (Alexanderstraße), because several timber-merchants the area between the road and the Dange river took for hereditary tenure, whereat they always had to fulfill the condition to erect their warehouses towards the Dange river, and the dwellings and workhouses with the front towards the street.
In 1798-99 twenty-two linden trees became newly planted in this avenue (partly to substitute dead trees), of which 12 from two merchants were delivered free of charge.

In the year 1802 the memorable meeting of the new king Friedrich Wilhelm III and his wife Luise with the emperor Alexander happened in Memel. The royal couple arrived from Königsberg over the Nehrung (Curonian Spit) on June 8th and took accommodation in the house of the merchant and Danish consul Lorck (the present city hall); the wife of the mayor Tarrach presented the queen a poem of the professor L. v. Baczko from Königsberg, which dealt with the anecdote, that Peter the Great answered the question of Friedrich I: what he did like at his court and in Prussia best: Your wife!
The Russian emperor Alexander arrived in Memel by carriage, escorted by the "Blaue Garde", on June 10th. ... The honor gate set up at the entrance of the Lindenstraße consisted of two obelisks braided with festoons, of which the one carried the Prussian flag, and the other the flag of Russia. ... The honor gate and the Lindenallee became illuminated during the presence of the people of high rank by 1080 little lights in the evening.