Walk through the old German city of Kaliningrad region

• Walk through the old German city of Kaliningrad region

For those who still have doubts about whether to go to the Kaliningrad region, or not, I say again - definitely worth it. Maybe in the Kaliningrad to watch something other than the surviving cathedrals and churches, who miraculously survived after heavy bombing allies and assault on the city. About the Curonian Spit and the Baltic are all so aware, they should get exactly. But I also highly recommend a ride on the car of the small towns in which the well preserved old German architecture. And do it better soon. Houses are gradually buried in the harsh Russian reality, wraps Chinese ventfasada, acquire warts air conditioning units and false teeth are sparkling white plastic windows. This is logical - people want to live in warmth and comfort.

But the strongest enemy of these places - this time. The old house from the beginning of the twentieth century without due care is gradually falling apart. After 10 years, half of these photos will already be history. They are already history. Taking a walk through the old streets of nice not feeling of unreality - it's like traveling back in time, walk through the museum, where people live, children are playing, roaming cats and dogs ...

I went to the Kaliningrad region for the sake of such neighborhoods. Like in our country, you will not find anywhere else.

The perfect way to travel on the Kaliningrad region by car - a car and a motorcycle. Well, or a bicycle. On the roads in the area is all right. Around Kaliningrad built luxury motorway.

And throughout the area kept a network of old German road to the famous "last soldier of the Wehrmacht." This old trees that are closely planted along the roads, making the boring country roads Stretches transformed into a beautiful journey through the forest tunnels. But soldiers need to be alert - any mistake can cost a life. Shoulders not, and any deviation from the path of movement leads either to oncoming lane, or the age-old wooden pole. War is long over, and these German trees still continue to take their toll.

Pravdinsk

The first city on our way was Friedland, which translated from German means "land of peace". When the land became part of the USSR, Friedland renamed Pravdinsk. In the city well preserved old German buildings with Kirche St. George, which was founded in 1313 and built a total of 150 years. Where else can you find such streets like the scenery to shoot movies? I'll tell you - only in the Kaliningrad region!

The yield on the roof of the church, and now the current church is not only interesting view of the city, but also to access to the roof. Climbing the stairs of the medieval tower does not look like flights of stairs on a panel dvenadtsatietazhku shovels.

The city center is partially restored. Or rather restored the facades overlooking the main square. Some buildings are lucky and they have retained their original appearance. But not all. See how horrible looks of the neighborhood store "neighbor."

Inside the church like that today.

It so happened that we came in on the day of the city Pravdinsk. Next to the Kirch turned a city holiday.

On the background of the old architecture and tidy all this motley Chinese masquerade seemed absurd.

We can not say that the whole city is made up of old German houses and all so beautiful. No. This is all the machinations of the photographer. To make such pictures, it was necessary to contrive to frame your subject so as not climbed advertising, facades chain stores or mobile phone operators into it.

Railway

Previously, the city was part of the border zone, as the road was not mentioned anywhere. Therefore, all the lost tourists locals routinely handed over to border guards, and those, in turn, wrote out a fine of 500 rubles and took away a couple of hours time. But in the last year to simplify everything, and now the city is open to all.

In the railway preserved medieval buildings, pretty, though dilapidated. In the heart of the old barn survived the XVII century, but every year it is getting worse and worse. Rather than restore this beauty and make the inside of the museum and shop for tourists, these barns was surrounded by a metal fence. So that no one got into the collapsing buildings and was not killed, and that no one bothered to barns quietly rot.

Locals adapt the old houses to fit their needs as they can. Somewhere cut through a window somewhere arch lay. The benefit of a lot of building material - recently closed a brewery not soon rastaschat the bricks.

Railway - a city-museum.

The German pharmacy.

Urban Pastoral with a stork on the roof.

In the city well preserved church building, but apparently it is no use to anyone, and it is not going to restore.

Chernyahovsk

The third largest city after Kaliningrad and Sovetsk lies on the A229 road Kaliningrad - Minsk. It is a modern city with the usual standard buildings. Only in the center of town is a few streets from the unusual for Russian resident houses. That's me to the fact that the city is not the same as in our photos. It only fragments and details that we are specifically looking for.

The old church, now St. Michael's Church.

Take pictures of German architecture in Chernyakhovsk is becoming harder and harder every year. Instead of beautiful facades appear practical ventilated horror.

But the people can understand. Qualitative reconstruction is worth ten times more expensive Chinese ventfasada.

See how alien look glazed windows. But it is not blowing and does not flow.

Browse Chernyakhovsk we ended up in an incredibly tasty beer yard near the central square. Highly recommend! After a beer garden began to rain, and we went in the direction of Lithuania.