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Defensive Wall

Ul. Chernyakhovskogo more than a year ago

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A small remaining section of the defensive wall that ran between strong points, in this case the Wrangel and Dohna forts, which overlooks the great water defence of the Upper pond in front of it.

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Dohna Tower

Pl. Vasilevskogo

Home to the Kaliningrad Amber Museum the tower is named after Prussian Field Marshall Friedrich Emil Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten who, among other things, was decorated in the war against Napoleonic France while serving in the Russian army. On his retiremen

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Wrangel Tower

Proletarskaya ul. 2

The north of the city was defended by two nearly identical round towers positioned on either side of a water defence, the Upper Pond or Oberteich as it was known in German, with the west one named the Wrangelturm (Wrangel Tower). It, like its sister tow

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