Brandenburg Gate (Kaliningrad)

Some hundred years later the gate was torn down and replaced by a brick structure by order of King Frederick II of Prussia.

During restoration work in 1843 the gate was significantly altered and decorated with sharp decorative pediments, cruciform sandstone color, stylized leaves on the tops, coats of arms and medallions.

Sculptures of Field Marshal Hermann von Boyen (1771–1848), a war minister and reformer of the Prussian army, and Lieutenant-General Ernst von Aster (1778–1855), chief of the engineering corps, and one of the initiators of the second strengthening of the city walls, were added as well.

Though built in the middle of the 19th century, the Königsberg gates were neogothic in style.

The pediments in the form of arrows give this gate, which is in fact rather low, a sense of height.

The Brandenburg Gate in Kaliningrad with a Tatra T4 tram in 2004.
In 2017