Kammala jumla mai zuwa: A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na I garin ya kasance wurin yakin Gumbinnen, babban yaƙi a Gabashin Gabas. Yaƙin ya faru a kusa da shi a farkon kwanakin yakin a watan Agusta 1914, kuma Gumbinnen daga baya sojojin sojojin Rasha suka mamaye shi na tsawon watanni. Bayan yakin, an gina tashar wutar lantarki, Ostpreußenwerk, a Gumbinnen kuma ta ba da iko ga yawancin Gabashin Prussia. A farkon zamanin Nazi, an sanya Gumbinnen a matsayin yanki na soja na yankin soja na Königsberg. Kusa da ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na II, a cikin 1944, na farko daga cikin mazauna Gumbinnen 24,000 sun fara tserewa daga Red Army mai ci gaba, kuma harin jirgin saman Soviet a ranar 16 ga Oktoba, 1944, ya haifar da mummunar lalacewar yankin garin. A ranar 22 ga Oktoba, 1944, sojojin Soviet sun kwace garin, waɗanda suka shiga cikin mummunan tashin hankali da yawa a kan fararen hula kafin Wehrmacht ta sake karɓar garin bayan kwana biyu. Kodayake sojojin Jamus sun sake kama Gumbinnen kuma sun yi nasarar a ƙarshen Oktoba don daidaita layin yaƙi a gabashin garin, Red Army ya sake cin nasara da sauri a lokacin babban harin Soviet na Gabashin Prussia a ranar 21 ga Janairu, 1945. A lokacin da
Fitar da Gabashin Prussia, 'yan Jamus da suka tsira sun gudu ko kuma an kore su da karfi.