• Friedland gate museum. Ulitsa Dzerzhinskogo, 30, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, 236004•8 (401) 264-40-20.
  • Previously, the Friedland Gate was part of the most fortified defensive complex of the Second Valny Bypass of Konigsberg (the Second Defensive Belt).
  • Friedland gate museum. Ulitsa Dzerzhinskogo, 30, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, 236004•8 (401) 264-40-20.
  • The carts creak, the walking by ladies heels click, the children laugh – Friedland gate opens the time portal to the town which no longer exists.
  • Three more such structures lost earthen ramparts, advanced fortifications and casemates. Only the Rossgarten and Friedland gates remained without reconstruction.
  • The last of the seven surviving city gates of the old Königsberg is the Friedland Gate, built in 1862 (the date is recorded on the stone of the vault of the roadway).
  • The double gate system of a main gate, a front gate plus the Zingel and the respective connecting walls gave the Friedland Gate an overall length of 88 metres.
  • Friedland Gates Museum. The Friedland Gate is an architectural monument of the 19th century, one of the seven remaining city gates of Kaliningrad.
  • The final point of construction, which dragged on for almost 19 years, was the construction of 2 new double-arch gates: the Friedland and Brandenburg.