Frunze Street (Kaliningrad)

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The King's Gate shows the Bohemian King Ottokar II , who gave the city its name, King Friedrich I , King in Prussia and Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach , founder of the Duchy of Prussia and the University of Albertina . (Sculptor: Wilhelm Ludwig Stürmer )

The Frunze Street ( Russian Улица Фрунзе / uliza frunze ) is a central street in Kaliningrad , Russia .

history

Until 1946 it was the Königsberger Königsstraße in the Königsberg district Neue Sorge (Königsberg) that led to the Königstor . In the post-war period the street was renamed after Mikhail Wassiljewitsch Frunze .

Course and cross streets

The Königstrasse led from the Königstor in a westward direction to the Roßgärter Markt.

Development

Königsstrasse with Königstor

past

  • The commander of the First Division lived at Koenigsstrasse 26 (Dönhoffsche Haus).
  • The state house, the administrative seat of the government for the province of East Prussia, was located at Königstrasse 28–31. The property once belonged to the Dönhoff family . The three-storey building was built in 1878 according to a design by the government architect Krah and then expanded three times. It showed frescoes by Otto Brausewetter and Ludwig Noster .
  • The French Reformed Church , built between 1733 and 1736 according to plans by Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt , was located on Königsstrasse . The Königsberg Art Academy was on the opposite side of the street . There was an obelisk in honor of Theodor von Schön near the art academy . The Friedenskirche was also located along Königstrasse .
  • Königsstrasse 54: The houses at Königsstrasse 54 to 56 were built almost simultaneously around 1700 and, according to Mühlpfordt, formed “the best building group in Königsberg” or, according to Dehio, were “one of the best building groups in town”. The group of houses was the seat of the district office for the district of Königsberg.
  • Königsstraße 55 (Dasselsches Haus): The house was built by Count Eulenberg . There used to be a room with wall paintings above the passage. The elaborate stucco reliefs on the chimneys were destroyed during the renovation in 1933. The house had a broad, one-armed staircase that was reminiscent of "old Germanic ornamentation". The staircase in “splendid carving” showed an archer with a bow on the deer hunt together with many dogs in the tendril. Of the "richly carved" stairs, only the original one in the east has been preserved. During renovation work in 1936, Paul Kimritz added a new moose to the banister following instructions from the Königsberg museum director Edouard Anderson. The railings and posts of the hall staircase of the house at Königsstrasse 55 were specially designed. The Dasselsche house at Königsstrasse 55 was converted into a savings bank in 1936.
  • Königsstraße 56: The building had a central passage under the balcony and a double-armed staircase. The “very beautiful” banister and the posts showed “well-carved” tendrils with cupids, grapes, eagles and lions.
  • Königsstrasse 65–67 (Königshaus): In the years 1730 to 1732 Friedrich Wilhelm I acquired the building Königsstrasse 65–67 for personal use from the widow of Chancellor Ludwig von Ostau (1663–1727). The building was known as the royal family and had elaborate stucco ceilings. King Friedrich II founded a military school in the royal house in 1741, which remained in the house until 1799. The Royal University Library was located in the building from 1810 to 1901 before it moved to Tragheim . After that it housed a collection of plaster casts of antiques from the historical antiquity society of Prussia.
  • Chancellor Karl Gustav von Goßler lived at 79 Königsstrasse .
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  • French Reformed Church, pulpit

  • The state house, seat of the province of East Prussia

  • Art Academy on Koenigsstrasse

  • The art academy in Königsberg

present

The southern side of the street was equipped with uniform concrete high-rise buildings. In the eastern part of the street there are preserved houses from the pre-war period. In general, like other similar streets in the city, the Königsstraße has been widened to around 60 m, only at the height of the Intendatur building has the old width of almost 14 m been preserved. Two houses have been preserved:

  • Corner house Koenigsstrasse 85 - ul. Frunze 85

Corner house at Königsstraße 85, today ul. Frunse 85

The corner house is located on the former Königsberg Koenigsstrasse No. 85 - ul. Frunze 85 in Kaliningrad. The building was built around 1890 in a round arch style.

  • Building, Koenigsstrasse 80, today ul. Frunze 71

Königsstraße 80, today ul. Frunze 71

The building is located at the former Königsberg Koenigsstrasse 80 today ul. Frunze 71 in Kaliningrad. The building was built around 1870/80 in the style of late classicism. The three-storey house was furnished with simple, but still middle-class apartments.

Königseck residential buildings

The buildings at Königsstrasse 73–75, today ul. Frunse 53–57 (Kreuz Apotheke), also known as “Wohnhäuser Königseck”, were built from 1900 to 1905 in Art Nouveau style. The buildings, which had not been destroyed during the war, were inhabited again immediately after the war. At the beginning of the 1990s the house was to be renovated, for which the building was cleared. The renovation was not carried out, the house fell into disrepair.

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literature

  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .
  • Markus Podehl: Architektura Kaliningrada: How Königsberg became Kaliningrad (=  materials on the art, culture and history of East Central Europe . Volume 1 ). Herder Institute, Marburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-87969-375-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg from A to Z , Munich 1972, Aufstieg-Verlag, p. 168.
  2. ↑ cf. Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg from A to Z , Munich 1972, Aufstieg-Verlag, p. 35
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt: Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255–1945 . Holzner, Würzburg 1970, OCLC 4261883 , p. 234 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Georg Dehio ; Ernst Gall; Bernhard Schmid: Handbook of German art monuments. Teutonic Order of Prussia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich; Berlin 1952, OCLC 878777190 , p. 390 .
  5. ^ Walther Franz: History of the city of Königsberg . Series: The Göttingen Working Group. Series of publications, issue 30. Holzner-Verlag, Kitzingen / Main 1953, OCLC 12208401 , p. 153 .
  6. ^ Robert Albinus: Lexicon of the city of Königsberg Pr. And surroundings. Leer 1985, Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, p. 179.
  7. ↑ cf. Robert Albinus: Lexicon of the city of Königsberg Pr. And the surrounding area. Leer 1985, Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg, p. 177
  8. ↑ cf. Gause, Fritz: Königsberg in Preußen , Rautenberg, Leer 1987, p. 634.
  9. ↑ Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 , pp. 121 .
  10. ↑ a b Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 , pp. 168 .
  11. ↑ a b Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 , pp. 169 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 42 ′ 45 ″  N , 20 ° 31 ′ 31.4 ″  E