Railway Station
🚂 Railway station
Krell Villa
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 🕵️ Urban legend
Friedrich Bast's Apartment Building
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Jewish Guesthouse
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Baltic Sea Hotel
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Gustav Stark's Guesthouse
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Post Office
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Pharmacy
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
House with Bats
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
House of the Starry Sky
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Kurhaus
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Daudert's Apartment Building
🕵️ Urban legend · 🏟️ Architectural landmark
Jewish Guesthouse
🏟️ Architectural landmark · 📜 Historic site
Point 7
🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site
Construction of the post office at 3 Königsberger Strasse began in 1894, and two years later the building was ready for use. In the middle of an oval niche was a black eagle, the coat of arms of East Prussia. On the wall below a second-floor window was the inscription “KAISERLICHES POSTAMT,” meaning “Imperial Post Office.”
The building is in the Historicist style and built of red brick. On the facades you can spot Gothic Revival elements such as pointed niches and arched windows. The center of the building and the side facades have projecting sections (risalits) topped with stepped gables. The walls are decorated with dark brown brick laid in strict geometric patterns, and the stepped windowsills are finished with green glazed tiles. A semicircular tower in the post office's inner courtyard once had a tall spire.
From the mid-1930s, all mail passing through the post office was canceled not with an ordinary stamp, as before, but with a special one showing an elk. The coat of arms of Cranz featured this handsome forest animal and a fish, but no one knows for sure why the postmark ended up showing just the elk's head. Several postcards with this postmark are held in the collection of the Zelenogradsk Local History Museum, along with postcards sent from the resort town of Cranz to all corners of the world.
Point on route “Kurortny Prospekt (Resort Avenue)”
Point 7
🏟️ Architectural landmark • 📜 Historic site
Construction of the post office at 3 Königsberger Strasse began in 1894, and two years later the building was ready for use. In the middle of an oval niche was a black eagle, the coat of arms of East Prussia. On the wall below a second-floor window was the inscription “KAISERLICHES POSTAMT,” meaning “Imperial Post Office.”
The building is in the Historicist style and built of red brick. On the facades you can spot Gothic Revival elements such as pointed niches and arched windows. The center of the building and the side facades have projecting sections (risalits) topped with stepped gables. The walls are decorated with dark brown brick laid in strict geometric patterns, and the stepped windowsills are finished with green glazed tiles. A semicircular tower in the post office's inner courtyard once had a tall spire.
From the mid-1930s, all mail passing through the post office was canceled not with an ordinary stamp, as before, but with a special one showing an elk. The coat of arms of Cranz featured this handsome forest animal and a fish, but no one knows for sure why the postmark ended up showing just the elk's head. Several postcards with this postmark are held in the collection of the Zelenogradsk Local History Museum, along with postcards sent from the resort town of Cranz to all corners of the world.
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