List of monuments in Kaliningrad

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This list of monuments in Kaliningrad contains monuments of the former city of Koenigsberg as well as the current city of Kaliningrad .

With two exceptions (Schiller Memorial and Fighting Wisente), all the monuments of the former Königsberg were destroyed or otherwise lost in the course of the Second World War and afterwards. After the extensive destruction, the Soviets completely rebuilt the city. A number of monuments and memorials were also recreated under Soviet rule, mostly related to the Great Patriotic War . In the post-Soviet period, too, some new monuments were created, as well as some lost monuments from the Königsberg period reconstructed or recreated as copies.

Königsberg before 1945

King Friedrich Wilhelm I monument

  • Established: 1907
  • Sculptor / Style: Sculptor Johann Meisner
  • Location: castle terraces
  • Status: not received

King Friedrich I Monument

  • Established: 1802
  • Sculptor / Style: Sculptor Andreas Schlueter
  • Location: Schloss-Platz, eastern corner of the castle
  • Status: not received

Kaiser Wilhelm I monument

  • Established: 1894
  • Sculptor / Style: Sculptor Friedrich Reusch
  • Location: Kaiser-Wilhelm Platz, southwest corner of the palace
  • Status: not received

Equestrian statue of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.

  • Established: 1851
  • Sculptor / Style: Sculptor August Kiß
  • Location: in the Königsgarten in front of the university (later: Paradeplatz)
  • Particularities:
  • Status: not received

Kant monument

  • Erected: 1864, copy from 1992
  • Sculptor / Style: Christian Daniel Rauch
  • Location: formerly on Princess Street in front of Kant's former house, from 1885 on Paradeplatz, today as a copy by Harald Haake in front of Kant University on the former Paradeplatz
  • Particularities:
  • Status: Original not preserved, re-erected in 1992 as a new casting.

Luis monument

Burow bust

  • Established: 1877
  • Sculptor / Style:
  • Location: Burgplatz
  • Special features: in honor of the doctor: Karl Heinrich Burow
  • Status: set up in the Albertinum in Göttingen

Herzog Albrecht monument

  • Erected: 1891, rebuilt in 2005
  • Sculptor / Style: Johann Friedrich Reusch
  • Location: formerly at the Haberturm , today next to the Königsberg Cathedral
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: disappeared in 1945, rebuilt

Bismarck monument

  • Established: 1901
  • Architect / style: Johann Friedrich Reusch
  • Location: Kaiser-Wilhelm Platz
  • Particularities:-
  • Status: not received

Edge memorial plaque

  • Established: 1904
  • Artist / Style: Bronze panel by Friedrich Lahrs
  • Location: Gesekus-Platz / Cyclops Wall
  • Special features: It contained a sentence from the " Apotheosis of Duty" in the Critique of Pure Reason : " Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and more persistently thinking is occupied with it: The starry sky above me and the moral law in me ".
  • Status: not preserved, new production in German and Russian since 1994 on a wall near the demolished castle.

A replica of the original tablet was unveiled in 1955 in the twin city of Duisburg .

Schiller monument

Schiller Monument

Established: 1910

  • Sculptor / Style: Stanislaus Cauer
  • Location: Paradeplatz, in Hufenallee since 1936 (today: Prospekt Mira ( Russian Просрект Мира ))
  • Special features: in honor of Friedrich Schiller
  • Status: received

Fighting bison

  • Established: 1912
  • Architect / style: sculptor August Gaul
  • Location: Hufenallee (today: Prospekt Mira ( Russian Просрект Мира ))
  • Particularities: -
  • Status: received

The German Michel

Four brothers column

  • Established: 1295
  • Location: Kaporn Heath
  • Special feature: renewed in 1898
  • Status: not received

Yorck memorial

Bessel bust

Kaliningrad in the Soviet Union / Russia

Memorial to the 1200 guardsmen

  • Erected: September 30, 1945
  • Architect / style:
  • Location: Gwardejskij Prospekt ( Russian Гвардейский проспект )
  • Special features: The memorial commemorates the soldiers of the 11th Guard Army who fell in the storm on Königsberg. It was erected over a mass grave with 1200 soldiers. An eternal flame has been burning in front of the monument since 1960
  • Status: received

Stone memorial cross

  • Erected: August 29, 2009
  • Location: Green area next to the cathedral
  • Occasion: 65th anniversary of the British air raids on Königsberg at the end of August 1944 (over 5000 civilian casualties)

Image gallery

  • Kaiser Wilhelm I monument on Kaiser Wilhelm Platz

  • Herzog Albrecht monument at the Haberturm

  • Reconstructed Duke Albrecht monument on the cathedral

  • Bismarck monument on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz

  • Schiller Monument

  • Friedrich I monument on the east side of the palace

  • Friedrich Wilhelm I monument on the palace terraces

  • Edge panel on the west side of the castle wall Cyclops wall

  • Bismarck on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz

  • Fighting aurochs before the Higher Regional Court

  • Queen Louise Monument in Hufen