Metgethen and Gross-Friedrichsberg, 5 miles west of K�nigsberg, had been named several times as a possible hiding place for the Amber Room.

Also the fact that the second Reichskommissar Paul Dargel moved to the area, makes the place seem to be more likely to be used to hide artwork. Dargel was the right hand of Erich Koch in the Ukraine developing looting of art. He had even formed an own department under control of Regierungsdirektor Habich.

And last it was very interesting that Erich Koch considered himself to be the owner of a large estate in  close Gro�friedrichsberg, being owned in reality by the East Prussia Land Company.

In February 1945, the Russians were very close to the estate which also held soldiers. One of them, who was at the estate for 10 days at the end of February, says that the Amber Room was stored in the estate. Several officers would have told him that they opened some of the boxes and saw parts of the Amber Room. Unfortunately, our witness from Plauen did not see the content with its own eyes, but remembers the dramatic reports by the officers about the beauty of the Amber Room. During the stay of our witness in the estate, much arrived and went away. A steady loading and transporting and no one knows if the Amber Room was moved as well.

J.Schatrow gave a hint to the newspaper ,,Iswestija� in September 1960: ,,We received a glass bottle with a note, which someone had found on the estate of Erich Koch. The note says that Russian prisoners of war would have built secret containers in the gardens of the estate. Of course this hint was very interesting. Was the writer of the note still alive and could one find him? He was found and brought to the place and immediately he could show us the place where the concrete tubes had been burried vertically and closed. We found the tubes, but they were empty! Koch did not have an oportunity anymore to use them or he had removed all treasure again before his escape.�