Zelenogradsk
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Water Tower of 1905
Zelenogradsk, Saratovskaya St, 2a
The 1905 water tower in Zelenogradsk, located at the intersection of Saratovskaya and Herzen streets, is home to the Murarium museum. The exposition of a private art collection of cats, opened in the tower's shaft in 2012, is viewed from top to bottom: visitors take an elevator to the upper tier and descend via a spiral staircase. Most exhibits are available to touch, and at the entrance guests are greeted by the museum's live mascot — a ginger cat named Semyon Semyonovich. At the observation deck at a height of 24 meters, you can arrange a romantic evening with tea and music against the backdrop of the sunset.
Zelenogradsk City Park
Zelenogradsk, Moskovskaya St
The City Park of Zelenogradsk, located on Moskovskaya Street, was laid out in 1844 as Plantage after the dunes in the eastern part of the city were planted. Its territory features winding paths, picturesque groups of trees, and a pond with a fountain in the center, known as Tortila's Pond. The park preserves the only one of the three Imperial Oaks planted in honor of the victory at Sedan in 1871 and named after Wilhelm I, as well as a monument to Adam Mickiewicz, unveiled in 2015. In 2019, a park improvement project worth 24.7 million rubles was presented.
Pre-war Villas of Tkachenko and Baltiyskaya Streets
Zelenogradsk, Tkachenko St, 7-13
Pre-war villas on Tkachenko and Baltiyskaya Streets in Zelenogradsk are two-story buildings with attics and balconies under tiled or gable roofs, built in Kranz in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. On the facade of the "Sleeping Beauty" villa (7 Tkachenko Street), a German inscription has been preserved, although by 2019 the balcony had been lost, and the building itself was in an emergency condition. On the western facade of the Jewish Community House (13 Tkachenko Street), images of two six-pointed stars have been preserved between the windows. On Baltiyskaya Street, 6, the verandas on the second floor are made in a half-timbered style, and authentic tiles lie on the floor of the stairwell.
Pre-War Houses on Volodarskogo Street
Zelenogradsk, Volodarskogo St, 10-18
On Volodarsky Street in Zelenogradsk there are preserved pre-war houses of the former Cranz. The two-story building No. 10, built in the late 19th - early 20th century on Dambad Strasse, is distinguished by facades with cornices, friezes, window pediments, and modillions. The corner building at the intersection with Kurortny Prospekt, 8 / Volodarsky, 1, constructed of burnt brick with a mansard and a gabled tile roof, is a cultural heritage site of local significance. Building No. 18 is a two-story structure with a mansard and wooden verandas, located under a gabled roof.
House with Dragons
Zelenogradsk, Kurortny Ave, 19
The House with Dragons in Zelenogradsk at Kurortny Prospekt 19 has been a cultural heritage site of local significance since 2007. In 2019, a wooden carved panel was restored on the northwest half-timbered gable of the mansard, and an antique panel with birds from the early 20th century consists of ten elements fastened with nails. On the sides of the first-floor facade, there are verandas under gentle gable roofs, and the building's renovation was carried out under a municipal program for the restoration of wooden architecture. In 2023, the city administration gifted the Hermitage a scaled-down replica of the house for the residence of museum cats.
Kranz Railway Station
Zelenogradsk, Vokzalnaya St, 1
The Kranz railway station in Zelenogradsk was built in 1885 by the Konigsberg-Kranz Railway Society on the Konigsberg-Kranz line. The station building has been preserved, but its facade has changed: the red brickwork is now hidden under a layer of plaster, and the wooden verandas have disappeared. Near the station, a water tower built in the same era has been preserved. After the reconstruction of the platforms in 2023, most suburban trains arrive at them, and to the south of the city there is a railway triangle for direct travel to Pionersky.
Resort Administration Building
Zelenogradsk, Pugacheva St, 1
The building of the resort administration in Zelenogradsk was built in the early 20th century in the Art Nouveau style from solid red ceramic brick. This two-story structure with an attic, a turret, and a clock on the pediment, having a roof of glazed tiles, is listed in the cultural heritage register under number 391711085780004. In the post-war years, a mud therapy facility was located here, and later a bottling plant for mineral water. By a decree of the government of the Kaliningrad region dated March 23, 2007, No. 132, the object was assigned the status of a cultural heritage site of local significance.
Hospital Building 1904
Zelenogradsk, Lermontova St, 3-4
The hospital building in Zelenogradsk was built in 1904 in Cranz from solid red ceramic brick and is designed in the Neo-Gothic style. Its architectural appearance includes two floors on a high basement, a mansard, and a risalit on the southern facade, while the roof is covered with red ceramic tiles of complex shape. The facades are plastered up to the middle of the first-floor windows, and at the level of the mansard and attic, half-timbered structures are installed. Since the post-war years, the former hospital building has been used as a residential house, and in 2022–2023 its facades and roof were renovated.
Baltic Sea Hotel Building
Zelenogradsk, Lenina St, 1
The building of the "Baltic Sea" Hotel (German: Hotel Ostsee) was constructed in Cranz in 1885 in the neoclassical style. Among its architectural features are risalits, cornices, rustic plaster, and pediments over the windows of the second floor, while inside, antique railings and patterned grilles on the stair landings have been preserved. After World War I, it housed the Bromberg Railway Control Directorate, and later the building belonged to the Women's Union of Königsberg, which established a nursing home there. As of August 2018, the former hotel housed the local Department of Education and a Ministry of Internal Affairs department, and the building itself has been a cultural heritage site of local significance since 2007.
East Prussia Hotel Building
Zelenogradsk, Pogranichnaya St, 1
The building of the "East Prussia" hotel was constructed in 1906 in Zelenogradsk (formerly Cranz) on Konigsberger Strasse in the Art Nouveau style. Its facade is adorned with a mascaron in the form of a fisherman's head, wrought-iron balconies with flower stands, a plant-themed stucco pattern, and half-timbering in the upper part, while the first floor is faced to imitate rusticated stone. After the fire of 1915, the restored building received the name "East Prussia", and in April-July 1945 it housed a military hospital for participants of the Samland operation. This object is a cultural heritage monument and is listed in the corresponding register.
Raiffeisen Savings Bank Building
Zelenogradsk, Pogranichnaya St, 2
A two-story rectangular building with an attic and a gabled tiled roof was built in Cranz at the beginning of the 20th century. Until the end of World War II, it housed a savings bank and the Raiffeisen bank, and in 1945, the headquarters of the 292nd Regiment of Lieutenant Colonel Yakov Petrovich Marshavin was located on the second floor, from where a report on the capture of the city was sent. The northwest façade at the second-floor level is decorated with eight belts and a triangular pediment. The facades, made of solid red ceramic brick and plastered, along with the roof, were renovated in 2021.
Kranz School Building (Vector Gymnasium)
Zelenogradsk, Turgeneva St, 5b
The building of the former Kranz School in Zelenogradsk, which today houses the "Vektor" gymnasium, has been recognized as a cultural heritage site of local significance. The entrance for students was located on the courtyard side, while the entrance for teachers was on the eastern side, and the school year began immediately after the Easter holidays. The gymnasium was equipped with gymnastic ladders, Swedish walls, balance beams, ropes, rope ladders, and trapezes, while the equipment was stored in an annex in the courtyard. Landscapes of East Prussia were painted in sepia above the classroom doors, mosaic paintings were laid on the corridor floors, and drinking fountains stood on the floors.
Zelenograd Local Lore Museum
Zelenogradsk, Lenina St, 6
The Zelenograd Local Lore Museum is located in the city center, in an old building with Gothic elements near the railway station. The villa with an area of 550 sq. m, built at the beginning of the 20th century, previously belonged to timber industrialist Israel Pik and the family of lawyer Max Krell, and since 2014 has been fully transferred to the museum. The exposition "Inhabitants of Ancient Kaup" on the second floor recreates the interior decoration of a Prussian dwelling from the Viking era, and a restored sculpture "Boy with a Fish" is installed in the square. In 2022, the museum became the winner of the "Talent of Hospitality" competition in the category "Best Tourist Attraction Object".
Bledau Estate
Zelenogradsk, Sosnovka village, Shkolnaya St, 1
The Bledow estate in Zelenogradsk (Sosnovka village) is connected to the history of the Prussian noble family von Korff, who owned the manor from 1746 to 1786. In 1636, these lands belonged to Ernst Rappe, and later passed to Nikolaus IV von Korff through marriage. In the estate park, there is a family cemetery and a crypt, where a memorial stone is installed at the burial site of Adolf von Batocki-Friebe, who was born in 1868 and inherited the entailed estate in 1890. In 2019, a memorial sign was unveiled at his burial site as part of a local history project by the local boarding school.
Kurortny Prospekt
Zelenogradsk, Kurortnyy Ave
Kurortny Prospekt in Zelenogradsk includes historical buildings from the early 20th century, such as the house with dragons at number 19, where a wooden carved panel on the half-timbered pediment was restored in 2019. Building No. 18, sold in 2021 to StroyTekh company for more than 52 million rubles, is in an emergency condition: it lacks a roof, the entrance group is lost, and there is water in the basement, while an unfinished extension made of silicate brick from 1997 adjoins it. In the building of the former Gustav Stark pension (house 28), profiled cornices between floors, plastered window casings, and French balconies have been preserved. The avenue also hosts an exposition of the Resort Fashion Museum, accompanied by music, songs from different eras, and vintage photographs.
Kurhaus Kranz
Zelenogradsk, Kurortny Ave, 16
The current Kurhaus building in Zelenogradsk, historically known as Grosses Logier und Neues Kurhaus, was built in 1904, and the "Neues Kurhaus" hotel complex opened for vacationers on June 16 of the same year. Since the late 1940s, one of the buildings of the "Zelenogradsk" sanatorium has been located in the building. In a small park behind the former Kurhaus, where a military orchestra once played, there is a monument to Queen Louise, and according to legend, an elm tree planted by Friedrich Wilhelm IV in 1843 grows there.
Great Patriotic War Memorial
Zelenogradsk, Moskovskaya (V Skvere U Yuzhnoy Granitsy Gorodskogo Parka) St
The Great Patriotic War Memorial in Zelenogradsk is located on Moskovskaya Street in a square near the southern border of the City Park. In the center of the rectangular site, on a high pedestal with the inscription "To the soldiers who fell for the Motherland. 1945," stands a sculpture of a Soviet soldier 2.5 meters high, depicted with an automatic rifle on his right shoulder and a helmet in his left hand. Behind the monument, there are two rectangular flower beds with blue spruces, and along the sides of the memorial, there are tombstones with memorial plaques. The mass grave is the burial site for soldiers who died during the capture of Kranz by units of the 43rd Army, as well as soldiers who died in hospitals in the last months of the war.
Westende Marine Colony
Zelenogradsk, Gagarin St area and west coast
The Westende seaside colony in Zelenogradsk, located in the area of Gagarin Street and the western coast, quickly grew into the most beloved residential area of the Kranz resort. About ten years after its foundation in 1918–1920, it resembled a small town with streets laid out in a grid pattern and garden plots near the houses. The first wooden summer buildings stood right on the cliff by the promenade, and the residential building at 29 Gagarin Street was erected in the 1930s.
Moscow Street
Zelenogradsk, Moskovskaya St
Moscow Street in Zelenogradsk is known for its historical buildings from the early 20th century, including a guesthouse at house number 19 with a mansard roof, two towers, and a weather vane on the southeastern tower. Here are located the "Queen Louise" Hotel at house number 50, the Transfiguration Cathedral (formerly St. Adalbert's Church) at house number 40a, and the Chapel of St. Andrew, now the Church of the Apostle Andrew the First-Called at house number 13a. The street also features the "Wald Frieden" villa with a gabled roof of Dutch tiles at house number 44, and the building of Kindergarten No. 6 in a former villa at house number 42. At the "Waldesrand" villa, there is a memorial plaque to Sam Simkin in the form of an open book, created by sculptor Fyodor Moroz.
Oktyabrskaya Street
Zelenogradsk, Oktyabrskaya St
On Oktyabrskaya Street in Zelenogradsk stands Villa Bismarck, built in the early 20th century at the address Kantsler-strasse, 7. The Pastor's House at Oktyabrskaya Street, 6 is a one-story rectangular building on a basement with an attic under a double-pitched tiled roof, adorned with window openings with segmental lintels and cornices with consoles. On the wall of the transformer substation there is a graffiti with cats, painted by Kaliningrad artist Kirill Geints at the end of April - beginning of May 2022. Northwest of the intersection with Kurortny Lane, the "Wheel of Time" fountain is installed, symbolizing the continuity of the flow of time and history.
BOSSE Boarding House
Zelenogradsk, Chkalova St, 10
The Bosse Boarding House is a two-story building with an attic and two symmetrical wooden verandas, built in Zelenogradsk in the late 19th – early 20th century. In 2017, it was declared unsafe and included in the demolition list, but the house was saved thanks to the active position of the townspeople. In the summer of 2021, the Kaliningrad Region Capital Repair Fund began the restoration of the building, during which the facade, verandas, roof were updated, and the carved aprons of the pediments were partially restored. The upper part of the eastern facade is decorated with two identical rosettes with bas-reliefs on a musical theme.
Kranz Post Office
29 Kurortny Ave, Zelenogradsk
The post office building in Zelenogradsk is located at 29 Kurortny Prospekt and is an object of cultural heritage of local significance. In the oval niche of the central risalit of the northern facade of the building, there was previously the coat of arms of East Prussia, and the stepped window sills are lined with green glazed tiles. The window openings have segmental arches, and the facades are decorated with windowsill, interfloor, and crowning cornices. As of 2024, options for using the service building as a shop, a branch of a bakery, or a mini-museum were being considered, while the administration issued a permit for emergency repairs and roof renovation of the auxiliary building.
Zelenogradsk Promenade
Zelenogradsk, Promenade
The Zelenogradsk promenade, which is 1.1 km long, was reconstructed under a federal target program starting in 2009 and was opened to residents on July 24, 2013, without a formal ceremony. By April 2026, 1,070 plants recreating the flora of the Curonian Spit, including mountain pines, juniper, and grasses, were planted on the promenade's "foredunes." The Strandhotel (Beach Hotel) in the Northern Art Nouveau style is located on the embankment, and during the summer months, daily concerts by a local chapel were held near the "Monopol" hotel. From the "Eye of the Baltic" Ferris wheel, located on the promenade, there is a view of the Baltic Sea waters, the Curonian Spit, and the historic part of the city.
Saratovskaya Street
Zelenogradsk, Saratovskaya St
Saratovskaya Street in Zelenogradsk is named after the city of Saratov. It features houses with distinctive early 20th-century architecture: building No. 4 has a rectangular plan with a mansard roof and a gabled tiled roof, while house No. 7 is distinguished by window panels and profiled cornices. House No. 6 stands out with a risalit of the stairwell featuring a hipped roof and spire, as well as trapezoidal bay windows on the southern facade. In 1937, the neighboring 2nd Saratovsky Lane was named Albert-Stiegel-Strasse, and building No. 3 previously housed a fire alarm point.
Lenin Street
Zelenogradsk, Lenina St
Lenin Street in Zelenogradsk is 1.1 km long and is named after Lenin. It features a two-story building, No. 12, from the late 19th or early 20th century with attics and balconies under a tiled roof, which houses a memorial plaque for Friedrich Kurschat, who edited the Lithuanian New Testament and published folk songs. Nearby, in the former railway hotel building constructed around 1885 (house No. 10), a hotel and restaurant named "Volna" were located after the war, and since the 1990s, a shop of the same name has been opened on the ground floor. Around the sculpture "Running on the Waves," a mosaic panel made of smalt has been completed, and after the renovation of house No. 12, the space will acquire a finished appearance.
St. Andrew the First-Called Church
Zelenogradsk, 2nd Moskovskiy Ln, 4
The Church of Andrew the First-Called in Zelenogradsk is located at 2nd Moskovsky Lane, building 4. The Catholic chapel of Saint Andrew, built in 1903–1904 in the style of the Sambian bishop's churches, was reconstructed into an Orthodox church in 1989–1991. In the churchyard in 2013 there were seven bells, and by 2019 a two-tier bell tower made of red brick with a hipped roof and a dome appeared; the bell tower was consecrated on December 13, 2014, by Bishop Seraphim of Baltiysk. According to the decree of the Government of the Kaliningrad Region dated March 23, 2007, No. 132, the chapel has the status of a cultural heritage site of local significance.
Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord
Zelenogradsk, Moskovskaya St, 40a
The Neo-Gothic St. Adalbert Church in Zelenogradsk was built according to the design of architect Launir and is also known as the Transfiguration Cathedral. Its 42-meter tower with clocks on three sides is located on the north, while the altar is on the southern side of the building. During World War I, the temple bells were melted down, but they were later restored through donations from parishioners and Oberpräsident of East Prussia Adolf von Batocki. After World War II, the building lost its religious purpose and was used as a gym and warehouse until it was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1994.
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