Tilsit cheese
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Tilsit cheese or Tilsiter cheese is a pale yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese, created in the mid-19th century by Prussian-Swiss settlers, the Westphal family, from the Emmental valley. The original
Tilsit cheese
Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast
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Sovetsk is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.
Tilsit cheese
…mid-19th century by Prussian-Swiss settlers, the Westphal family, from the Emmental valley. The original buildings from the cheese plant still exist in Sovetsk, Russia, formerly Tilsit, on the Neman River, in the former German province of East Prussia. The same ingredients to make the cheese were not available…
Historic city center with preserved old townhouses
Castle in c. 1800
Napoleon, Alexander I, Queen Louise, and Frederick William III in Tilsit, 1807; painted by Nicolas Gosse
Lithuanian Church, between 1910 and 1930