Svetlogorsk - Raushen: a seaside resort in the Baltic
We continue our journey through the Baltic Sea. The city of Svetlogorsk (until 1947 - Raushen) has its own character, it is completely different. baltic.
Svetlogorsk is 30 km northwest of Kaliningrad and 47 km from Baltiysk.
The city welcomes guests with the aroma of pine trees. On the shady streets, neat old German villas "Elsa", "Dune House", "Hildegard", "Shermann" have been preserved. Modern cottages also try to harmoniously fit into the surrounding landscape.
It is nice to walk slowly, do not rush anywhere, and admire what you see.
Original and famous sculptures of SvetlogorskNymph Herman Brachert, “Frog princessO. Melekhova,Undineby Tim Davidson.
The house on Gagarin Street became famous thanks to the sculptural composition “Rauchen’s Fisherman”.
Svetlogorsk is the only Russian city that is part of the international association Slow City, that is, here you can officially "stay", and enjoy life.
Let’s start with a tour of the architectural symbol of Svetlogorsk. Water tower and body of the water hospital They were built more than a hundred years ago (architect Otto Walter Kukkuk), when the resort of Rauschen was at the peak of its heyday.
To the sea lead pedestrian descents and cable car (or funicular).
It is interesting that the funicular was first opened at the resort of Rauschen in 1908, and the modern lift worked in 1984.
Let's compare!
In 1974, the seafront An unusual mosaic was installed - the composition Sundial "Zodiac". The work of sculptor Nikolai Pavlovich Frolov for the originality of the performance and accuracy of displaying time entered the Guinness Book of Records.
You can continue the leisurely walk at pacific (former Mill Pond) - you can get to it either from the center of Svetlogorsk on Baltic Street, or along the street. Karl Marx.
In the gazebos you can wait out the rain, and in the cafe on the embankment - taste fresh and deliciously cooked fish.
German sculptor Otto Walter Kukkuk designed many of Rauschen’s buildings.
The 1907 Lutheran church in the neo-Gothic style with Art Nouveau elements (now the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov) was designed by German masters, Wichman and Kukkuk.
Chapel-monument of the icon of the Mother of God “To all who mourn Joy”
On May 16, 1972, Svetlogorsk experienced a terrible tragedy: an An-24T military aircraft of the Baltic Fleet of the USSR crashed and fell on a kindergarten. The plane crash killed all the crew members, children and kindergarten teachers who were in the building at that time.
In memory of the tragedy in 1994, a chapel with a memorial plaque was erected at the site of the disaster: “The temple-monument in honor of the icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” was built on the site of the tragic death of the kindergarten on May 16, 1972.”
Text: Pauline M.
Photo: Alexei S.
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