Sackheim Gate
Sackheim Gate
The city gate Sackheim was built in 1855-1860. The gate had one carriageway in the form of an arch of a two-centred outline.
The architectural appearance of the Sackheim Gate has many similarities with other Koenigsberg gates. However, there are significant differences. The inner (to the city centre) portal is elaborately ornamented well as decorated with ‘crabs’ and finial. On the sides of the portal there are two powerful semi-towers passing at the level of the parapet in the tower. The tower covers are in the form of a flattened dome.
Along the perimeter of the towers between the loopholes there are niches in the form of a Latin cross.
On the field side the gate has a more modest architectural appearance. There are octagonal three-quarter towers ending at the level of a parachute parapet with stylistically deviant machicolation with decorative denticles on the ribs. Above the portal there was an image of the Black Eagle. The Order of the Black Eagle was considered the highest award of Prussia.
On the city side there were medallions with the high reliefs of Johann David Ludwig of York and Friedrich Wilhelm Buelow, commanders and statesmen of the Prussian state during the Napoleonic wars.
The information obtained from the Cultural Heritage Sites of the Kaliningrad Region guidebook; compiled by and editor-in-chief A.M. Tarunov (2013-2015)