Kaliningrad: Dom Tekhniki

Country: Russia (Rossiya)
Federal District: Northwestern Federal District (Severo-Zapadny Federalny Okrug)
Federal Subject: Kaliningradskaya Oblast
City: Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
Location: Ulitsa Professora Baranova 30 (Waldburgstraße/Wallring)

Built 1924-1925 by Hans Hopp as an exhibition hall for agricultural machines named "Haus der Technik" (House of Technology) at the "Ostmesse" trade fair. From 1933 to 1945 named "Schlageterhaus" after a German saboteur commemorated by the Nazis as a national hero. One part of the building was used as a cinema named "Kulturfilm-Theater". Severeley damaged in World War II. After the war used as an open-air market. From 2004 major rebuilding into a shopping mall.

Link: Wikipedia

Kaliningrad: Dom Tekhniki Front Text: "Königsberg i. Pr., Schlageterhaus"; inscription: "Kulturfilm Theater"
Size: Modern
Sent: from Königsberg to Berlin (Germany) [stamp and postmark removed]

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