The "Tower of Time" clock museum has opened in the town of Cherniahovsk in the Kaliningrad Region. It occupies the first four floors of the building of an old water tower, which is an object of cultural heritage of local importance. This is reported on the website of the Main State Expertise of Russia.
"The new museum has already been included in the catalogs of tourist routes offered by travel agencies that offer trips to Cherniahovsk, where, in addition to the tower, guests can visit the Georgenburg Teutonic castle, the old stud farm of the same name, unique churches, see the monuments to Barclay de Tolly and Cherniahovsky, as well as other interesting architecture," the message says.
The "Tower of Time" currently has more than 130 unique exhibits, they are placed on red brick walls in the entourage of antique carved furniture.
The tower building was built in Insterburg (now Cherniahovsk) in 1898, and a year later it was connected to the water supply system. However, already at the end of the 1930s, the structure was no longer used for its intended purpose.
As the message says, during the Great Patriotic War, the tower was practically not damaged - it only lost its battlements in the upper part, and a couple of dozen bullet marks appeared.
Cherniahovsk became Insterburg after the war - it was renamed in 1946 in honor of the commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Ivan Chernyakhovsky.
"And if in Kaliningrad there is almost no old German architecture and cobblestone streets left (only the cathedral on Kant Island and the Amalienau district with the church have survived), then in Cherniahovsk almost the entire city center has survived to this day," the Main State Expertise of Russia noted.
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