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      Gates and towers of old Königsberg

      ⏱ 5 h🚶 3.5 km🍽 1📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      Along Litovsky Val from gate to gate — red-brick 19th-century fortifications, lunch in the casemates and the Amber Museum in a round tower.

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        🏛 Sackheim Gate
        ул. Литовский Вал, 61
        A 19th-century gate with four turrets on Moskovsky Prospekt — an art space since 2013.
        Start at the Sackheim Gate on Moskovsky Prospekt: walk all the way round it — on the city side are high reliefs of the generals Yorck and Bülow.
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        Sackheim Gate
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The present gate was built in the mid-19th century on the site of an early 17th-century gate.
        • Until 2006 the gate was used as a warehouse; then it was restored.
        • In 2013 the Vorota (“Gate”) art platform opened here with exhibitions and concerts.
        • On the city side the gate is decorated with high reliefs of the Prussian generals Yorck and Bülow.
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      3. 2
        🖼 King’s Gate
        ул. Фрунзе, 112
        🎟 ticket
        A castle-like gate with high reliefs of three rulers; inside is an exhibition about Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy.
        Along Litovsky Val to the King’s Gate. Inside is an exhibition about Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy; it is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, but the façade with the three kings is always visible.
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        King’s Gate
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        King’s Gate
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        • The present gate was founded on 30 August 1843 in the presence of King Frederick William IV and completed in 1850.
        • The niches hold high reliefs of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, King Frederick I of Prussia and Duke Albrecht.
        • After the war the sculptures had their heads knocked off, and locals nicknamed them “the three headless kings”.
        • The gate was restored for Kaliningrad’s 750th anniversary in 2005; inside is an exhibition about Peter the Great’s Grand Embassy.
        • The name comes from Königstrasse, along which the Prussian kings rode from the castle to review the troops.
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      5. 3
        🏛 Kronprinz Barracks
        ул. Литовский Вал, 38
        Red-brick defensive barracks with a round tower on Litovsky Val.
        The Kronprinz Barracks with their round tower — we look from outside.
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        Kronprinz Barracks
        © Valdis Pilskalns · CC BY 3.0
        Kronprinz Barracks
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kronprinz Barracks
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The defensive barracks were built in 1843–1849 to a design by the military engineer Ernst von Aster.
        • The name comes from the Crown Prince’s grenadier regiment, which was quartered here.
        • The barracks were linked by an underground passage to the neighbouring Grolman Bastion.
        • The building was not seriously damaged during the storming of Königsberg.
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      7. 4
        🏛 Rossgarten Gate
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 3
        A Neo-Gothic city gate of the 1850s next to the Dohna Tower; inside is the Solnechny Kamen (“Sun Stone”) restaurant.
        The Rossgarten Gate is the most “Gothic” in the city; walk round it on the Vasilevskogo Square side.
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        Rossgarten Gate
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Rossgarten Gate
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The gate was built in 1852–1855; the Berlin architect August Stüler reworked the façade in Gothic forms.
        • The gate has a single passage five metres wide, with three casemates on each side.
        • After the war the gate was restored to house the Solnechny Kamen café-restaurant.
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      9. 5
        🍽 Solnechny Kamen restaurant
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 3 (Росгартенские ворота)
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        Lunch right in the casemates of the gate: klopse (Königsberg meatballs), zander or kulebyaka (a layered pie).
        🍴 A fish restaurant in the casemates of the Rossgarten Gate. What to order: klopse (Königsberg meatballs), zander, stroganina (thin shavings of frozen raw fish), tsarskaya pokhlyobka (“tsar’s soup”), Nikolaevskaya kulebyaka (a layered pie), strudel.
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      11. 6
        🖼 Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        пл. Маршала Василевского, 1
        🎟 ticket
        A museum in a round fort tower on the Upper Lake: Baltic amber, inclusions and amber work from ancient times to the present.
        The Amber Museum in the neighbouring Dohna Tower: look for the inclusions — insects caught in resin millions of years ago. Closed on Mondays.
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        Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Amber Museum (Dohna Tower)
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The museum is in the Dohna Tower — a round fortification of 1853, 34 metres across, on the shore of the Upper Lake.
        • The first part of the museum opened on 29 December 1979.
        • Nearby, in the village of Yantarny, is the largest known amber deposit, with more than 90% of the world’s reserves.
        • The tower was named after the Prussian field marshal Friedrich Karl zu Dohna.
        • In April 1945 the tower was a German strongpoint — it was taken during the storming of Königsberg.
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      13. 7
        🏛 Wrangel Tower
        ул. Профессора Баранова
        A round brick tower, twin of the Dohna Tower, that guarded the Upper Lake from the west.
        Finish along the Upper Lake at the twin Wrangel Tower, 10 minutes along the shore.
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        Wrangel Tower
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Wrangel Tower
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The tower was built in 1859 and named after Field Marshal Wrangel.
        • Together with the Dohna Tower it guarded the Upper Lake — the weakest point in the city’s defences.
        • The tower is 34 metres across and 12 high; guns stood in 42 casemates on two levels.
        • In 1913 an art gallery was set up here under the architect Friedrich Lahrs.

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