German poet Heinrich Heine wrote that Immanuel Kant, the great Enlightenment philosopher, led a “mechanically ordered” life in the Prussian city of Konigsberg “and as he passed by at his customary ...

MOSCOW, July 20. /TASS/. The 14th century Preussisch Eylau Castle of the former Teutonic Order located in the Kaliningrad Region of Russia is being put on the auction block. Bids are being accepted ...

Kaliningrad, Russia’s westernmost region, which used to be German territory, has numerous castle ruins of the Teutonic knights. Centuries later, local enthusiasts are trying to save what's left of ...

Despite wartime devastation and more than 40 years of Soviet suppression of its German history, East Prussia is still present in the landscape of the Kaliningrad region, Russia’s exclave on the Baltic ...

Copydude reports on the plans to rebuild Kaliningrad's old Prussian castle, which was “firebombed by the RAF in 1944″ and “then levelled in 1969 to build the ill-conceived ‘House Of Soviets‘.” Global ...