Wer aus Insterburg kommt unbekneipt, aus Gumbinnen unbeweibt, aus Pillkallen ungeschlagen, der kann von großem Glücke sagen.

Whoever returns from Insterburg sober, from Gumbinnen unmarried, from Pillkallen unbeaten — can speak of great fortune.

— East Prussian saying

Homeland — northern East Prussia, today the Kaliningrad Oblast

Königsberg, Tilsit, Insterburg, Gumbinnen, Pillau, Wehlau, Heinrichswalde, Labiau, Gerdauen, Trakehnen — and many small surrounding villages — are your homeland or that of your ancestors.

Those who know both the old and the new place names are not revisionists — they simply show interest in shared history and culture.

Kaliningrad, Sovetsk, Chernyakhovsk, Gusev, Baltiysk, Znamensk, Slavsk, Polessk, Zheleznodorozhny, Yasnaya Polyana and many villages have, over several generations, also become a homeland. And these generations say:

Welcome to the land of storks and Trakehner horses!

We would like to welcome you with our proverbial hospitality and show you our — now shared — homeland.

There is a comfortable connection from Germany to Insterburg — to our Gasthaus Ostpreußen, located directly on the Inster.

Insterburg — today Chernyakhovsk — lies in the very centre of the Kaliningrad Oblast at a convenient transport crossroads. It is an excellent starting point for your individual search for traces.