Friedland Gate
Friedland Gate
The modern Friedland Gate was part of the Koenigsberg’s defensive structures of the 19th century. The date of construction, 1862 is fixed on the castle stone of the vault of the roadway. There used to be a road passing through the Friedland Gate leading to the town of Friedland (modern Pravdinsk, Kaliningrad region).
The ring of defensive earthworks was divided into several ‘fronts’. The Friedland Gate was on the Friedland highway and was part of the Haberberg Front (now the district of Kalinina Prospect).
The Friedland Gate included used to have the most fortified defensive structures in comparison with the other city gates. It had more casemates with windows and embrasures. The Gate casemates used to have not only gun embrasures but also cannon embrasures. Next to each pass there were guard rooms protected by anti-assault structures (walls with embrasures and metal lattice). From the outer (field) side, the Gate had a scarp (the inner wall of the fortress moat) with many embrasures and a sentry path behind it. This wall is preserved. Such an increased focus on the security of the Gate is due to its location in the southern part of the city, which was viewed as a place of possible enemy attack.
The Gate is built of red brick in the Neo-Gothic style presumably under the guidance (or inspired by the ideas) of the architect F. A. Stueler. The decorative design of the Gate including sandstone sculptures on the facades was made by the Berlin sculptor W. L. Stuermer.
The Friedland Gate has two driveways, two guard duty rooms and several utility rooms that extend into the body of the rampart.
The information obtained from the official website of the Friedland Gate Museum -fvmuseum.ru