East Prussia

[Roy Corduroy]

What is that last building, Roy?

Thank you for asking Robert, but no I don't know what building it is.

The photo, a much larger version, was shown at a website - (click) Undated and uncaptioned, and clicking on it there links back to the poster's flickr site where also no info.

It appears to be a gated mausoleum (note skull upper left) which is by the brick wall of a church possibly (stained glass window).

[Robert Linford]

Thanks Roy. The photo bears extreme magnification without becoming blurred and I've enlarged it up to 700% but I still cannot make out the writing either side of the doors.

[Roy Corduroy]

manor house, church

[Roy Corduroy]

George Stepney was the English envoy during the time of Frederick I, King in Prussia, whose coronation at Konigsberg was commemorated in this plate.

[Roy Corduroy]

Rebuilding Malbork/Marienburg castle in the 1960's.





Photos from this site (click)

[Roy Corduroy]

Was that part of the population subject to all that ethnic cleansing of Germans that occurred in other countries/states the minute World War Two ended?

Yes Curryong, all the Germans were expelled. This Russian lady was one of the first resettlers in 1946.

[Roy Corduroy]

School days

[Roy Corduroy]

Unknown photo from Konigsberg

What is that last building, Roy?

I have been thinking some more about this Robert. Wiki says Immanuel Kant was buried inside Konigsberg cathedral in 1804, then reinterred in a neo-gothic chapel built outside at the northeast corner of the cathedral in 1880. In 1924 it was taken down and the present tomb built at the same spot.

So I wondered, was the unkown photo Kant's previous tomb?

Kants tomb built in 1924 and still standing



Kant's previous tomb, the neo gothic chapel built in 1880 at the same spot, Chor von Nordosten, the northeast corner.



Kants Grabstatte - tomb



So the initial photo remains unknown. It was not Kant's previous tomb, no resemblance.

An iconic photo from 1945. Somehow Kants tomb survived the war virtually unscathed.