🖼 Fort No. 5 “King Frederick William III”

ул. Михаила Булатова

The best known of the forts in Königsberg’s “night-time featherbed” ring: casemates, posterns and a water-filled moat, taken by storm in 1945.

The fort was built at the end of the 19th century: a hexagon of brick and concrete, 215 by 105 metres, surrounded by a water-filled moat.
In 1886 it was additionally covered with a layer of reinforced concrete about two metres thick.
The fort guarded the roads to Pillau and Rauschen and was taken by storm in early April 1945.
It is named after King Frederick William III, who ruled Prussia during the Napoleonic Wars.
The fort became a museum of the history of the Great Patriotic War in 1979 and has been open to visitors since 2010.

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