The only surviving of the seven gates of the old city of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) in use today for its intended purpose - the Brandenburg Gate.

In 1657, in the southwest of the First rampart fortifications, on the road connecting Koenigsberg castle and Brandenburg (today - village Ushakovo), it was built the Brandenburg Gate .  Until the mid-eighteenth century were wooden gates .  Over time, the building decayed in the late eighteenth century by order of the Prussian King Friedrich II has been replaced by a massive brick fortification building in the Gothic style with a high arched openings and the lateral casemates .  In 1843, during the restoration, the gates were adorned with decorative peaked gables, stylized leaves, cruciform flowers, medallions and emblems .  Also at the Brandenburg Gate were sculpted portraits of the War Minister Field Marshal reformer Hermann von Boyena and one of the authors rampart strengthening Konigsberg - Ernst von Aster, who held the post of chief of the engineering corps .  The author was the architect of the facade renovation F . A .  Shtyuler .  Later, side dungeons, originally served as a sentry box, were converted for pedestrian gates .  In Soviet times, the passages were sealed masonry and indoor shops were . 

Today, the restored Brandenburg Gate, considered an architectural monument of the eighteenth century and protected by the state. Through the gate are the tram tracks and roads, paved with cobblestones. From the outside the construction is well preserved relief images of two "Prussian Eagle" - the basis of the coats of arms of Germany and Prussia, and from the city - the portrait medallions.

Of the buildings of the old Königsberg Brandenburg Gate stand out particularly pronounced Gothic motifs: arrow-shaped gables, giving the height of a small building, and ornate decorative elements.