Pregel Bastion
Pregel Bastion
The horseshoe shaped one-floor brick structure with primer coating. Along the perimeter, the outer walls have loopholes, and the inner ones have window openings with beam ends.
It was built in 1859. In 1910-1914 the rampart of the bastion was dug away.
The main elements of the Pregel bastion - glacis, moat, battle rampart with firing positions, caponiers and casemated traverse - were demolished on the eve of World War I.
The remaining one-floor horseshoe-shaped version has a protective ground layer with remains of the former artillery fire positions. Because of all kinds of extensions and surrounding buildings, the reduite partially lost its military appearance.
A lot of embrasures from the outside are covered with arched arches made of wedge-shaped bricks of multiple firing. The arched arches crown the cornice of the reduite by leaning on the hinged stepped brick consoles. Along the perimeter of the cornice facing the rear part of the reduite, there are crackers and denticles in half a brick.
To the outer walls of the reduit, from the rear, adjoined are angular hexahedral three-quarter watch towers – turrets - which perform a decorative function.
Throughout one and a half centuries it was repeatedly upgraded and supplemented with new constructive elements. So, instead of some door and window openings, embrasures covered with armoured doors were introduced. The concrete mattress was laid in the cover over the protective soil stratum.
The information obtained from the Cultural Heritage Sites of the Kaliningrad Region guidebook; compiled by and editor-in-chief A.M. Tarunov (2013-2015)