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20. Hotel Preussisher Hof building complex

One of the examples of professionally designed representative commercial buildings in the Klaipėda region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is the first and the largest hotel in Priekulė, the Preussisher Hof (Prussian Palace) (15 Klaipėdos Street).  It was built before 1909 and is believed to have been built by A. Eliseit, who is mentioned in historical sources as the first owner of the hotel. The building was a hotel with a restaurant and a hall on the second floor. Later in the 1st century, the premises housed colonial stores and ironmongery shops. Large outbuildings stood at the edge of the courtyard: a brick barn, a woodshed and a shed built in 1910.
The building at 17 Kaipėdos Street is one of the most ornate buildings on Klaipėda Street in pre-war Priekule. It was rented to August Springfeld, a baker, who reconstructed the building in 1909. On the ground floor he built commercial premises - a café and a pastry shop. The second floor was a baker's flat and rented apartments. The production part of the bakery was located in the courtyard. The memories of the old inhabitants of Priekulė say: '<...> We bought our cakes from Springfeld. <...> Women who met relatives or girlfriends <...> only went to Springfeld's café to visit, to have a cup of coffee with a cake. It was nice to sit there and talk.'