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Kaliningrad City Hall in the Victory Square Flags of Russia (center), Kaliningrad Oblast (left), and Kaliningrad (right), over the City Hall. Local self-government in the city is carried out on the basis of the Charter, which was adopted by the City Council of Deputies of Kaliningrad on July 12, 2007.
Kaliningrad City Hall is the seat of government in Kaliningrad, Russia. It is located at Victory Square. The building was designed by architect Hanns Hopp in 1923, when the city was known as Königsberg, Germany.
It served as the capital of the united Province of Prussia from 1824 to 1878, when East Prussia was merged with West Prussia. It was also the seat of the Regierungsbezirk Königsberg , an administrative subdivision.
Kaliningrad City Hall was designed by Hanns Hopp and erected 1922-1923 as trade building for the German Eastern Fairs, Deutsche Ostmesse Königsberg. The main fairgrounds were located north of the present Victory Square in close vicinity to the trade building.
Kaliningrad – City Scene. How much is left of the original City of Königsberg? Some people have argued that Kaliningrad is still Königsberg but now under a different name.
23 paź 2024 · History of the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly the German city of Konigsberg. Detached from the rest of the country, the city is an exclave of the Russian Federation. Formerly the capital of East Prussia, Kaliningrad was ceded to the Soviet Union in 1945 under the Potsdam agreement.
12 paź 2021 · The Church of the Holy Family (1904-1907) - the most significant creation of Friedrich Heitmann, one of the most famous architects of East Prussia. A lot of elements of the building, its layout were taken from the Teutonic Order churches. Today, this building is used as a concert hall of the Kaliningrad Regional Philharmonic.
