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      Ponart: the brewery, the church and Letneye Lake

      ⏱ 4 h🚶 4.5 km🍽 2📍 7 stops
      🚶 Moderate — 3–7 km

      A working-class suburb of Königsberg that tourists rarely reach: the white buildings of a 19th-century brewery, a Neo-Gothic church, a guest house with verandas and the lake where ice for the beer was cut.

      🏛 History and architecture🏘 Off the centre
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        🏛 Brandenburg Gate
        ул. Багратиона, 137
        A Gothic city gate of the 17th–19th centuries that cars still drive through.
        Start at the Brandenburg Gate; then head south along Bagrationa and Kievskaya streets, about half an hour on foot.
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        Brandenburg Gate
        © A.Savin · FAL 1.3
        Brandenburg Gate
        © Artyom Svetlov · CC BY 4.0
        • The first gate here was built in 1657 — a wooden one on the road to Brandenburg Castle.
        • The gate got its present look with pointed gables during the rebuilding of 1843.
        • It is the only city gate in Kaliningrad still used as a through road.
        • The gate bears portraits of Field Marshal Hermann von Boyen and General Ernst von Aster.
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        🏛 Ponart — the former brewery
        Судостроительная ул., 6/1
        The white buildings of a 19th-century brewery, now a cultural quarter with coffee shops, small shops and offices.
        The former brewery is now a cultural quarter: go into the courtyard between the old buildings. Opposite is the former brewery office with a barrel on the gable.
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        Ponart — the former brewery
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The brewer Johann Philipp Schifferdecker bought a plot in Ponart in 1849 and built a new brewery here.
        • Ice for the beer was first brought from Sweden, then cut on two ponds — today’s Letneye (“Summer”) and Zimneye (“Winter”) lakes.
        • After the war the building housed “Brewery Plant No. 2”, which bottled mineral water and lemonade.
        • In December 2022 cafés, shops and offices opened again on the site of the former brewery.
        • The village of Ponart is first mentioned in 1328 and became part of Königsberg in 1905.
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      5. 3
        ☕️ 13/22 craft coffee
        Судостроительная ул., 6/1 (Понарт)
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        Coffee and waffles in a brewery building.
        🍴 A tiny coffee shop in a building of the former brewery. What to order: a lavender or halva latte, waffles, a raf (creamy espresso drink), bubble tea.
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        🏛 Ponart Guest House
        Судостроительная ул., 2
        A two-storey guest house of 1908 with a portico and wooden verandas — now the Yantar Palace of Creativity.
        The 1908 guest house with wooden verandas — we look from outside.
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        Ponart Guest House
        © A.Savin · FAL
        • The guest house was built in 1908 to a design by Professor Osterroth.
        • It housed the Südpark restaurant, with two halls, beer cellars and a skittle alley.
        • The building is now a listed heritage site and houses the Yantar Palace of Creativity for Children and Young People.
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        🏛 Ponart Church (Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God)
        Киевская ул., Понарт
        A Neo-Gothic brick church of 1897, built with money from the parish and the brewery director.
        The Neo-Gothic church of 1897 — now the Orthodox Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God.
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        Ponart Church (Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God)
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The church was consecrated on 23 July 1897; the money was raised by the parish, the brewery director Schifferdecker and the residents of Ponart.
        • The first organ was brought here from the city synagogue.
        • After the war the building was a warehouse and then the Shtorm sports hall.
        • In 1991 the church was handed over to the Orthodox Church and in 1992 consecrated as the Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God.
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      11. 6
        🍽 Mario Pizza café
        Киевская ул., 71 («Киноленд»)
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        Lunch at the pizzeria in the Kinolend building — before the war this was Ponart’s cinema.
        🍴 A pizzeria with a children’s menu in the Kinolend building on Ponart’s main street. What to order: the “Don Corleone” or “Roman” pizza, fettuccine with prawns, a milkshake.
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      13. 7
        🌳 Letneye Lake
        Понарт
        🆓 free entry
        The former Swan Pond of the Ponart brewery: ice for the beer was once cut here, and now people stroll along its shore.
        Finish at Letneye Lake — the brewery’s former Swan Pond: walk round it along the shore.
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        Letneye Lake
        © Anton Yefimov · CC BY 3.0

      ↩️ Getting back: from the stops on Kievskaya Street — buses towards South Station and the centre, ≈15–20 min; or a taxi, ≈15 min

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