• Previously, the Friedland Gate was part of the most fortified defensive complex of the Second Valny Bypass of Konigsberg (the Second Defensive Belt).
  • A special place is occupied by the museum "Friedland gates" - a museum of antiques found during the improvement of the city in old houses...
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Friedland Gate was built in 1857-1862 to the design of Ernst Ludwig von Aster and its completion marked the end of construction of the Second Defensive Ring.
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  • Three more such structures lost earthen ramparts, advanced fortifications and casemates. Only the Rossgarten and Friedland gates remained without reconstruction.