Berliner Gate (Kostrzyn nad Odrą)

The tourist information office with a small permanent exhibition is located in the restored Berlin gate of the fortress complex. The Berlin Gate received its current form between 1877 and 1879.

A very interesting place

After the part of Küstrin east of the Oder (old town/fortress and new town) was ceded to the Polish state by the Allies as part of the Potsdam Agreement of August 1945, the ruins of the old town fell more and more into disrepair. At the end of the 1960s they were stripped down to the basement and became a restricted area. In 1994 the reconstruction and partial reconstruction of this part of the city began. The Philipp bastion, the Kattewall with the Brandenburg bastion, the Berlin and Kietzer gates with a moat have now been renovated. Numerous museums, monuments and war cemeteries were built on both sides of the Oder.