In Zelenogorsk, a cozy one-story mansion with a mezzanine has been preserved, built in the early 20th century in the Art Nouveau style (architect unknown). The house is distinguished by a mezzanine with rounded walls and first-floor windows decorated with original trims featuring the flowing lines of pure Art Nouveau. The house belonged to Arthur Gintzel, who owned extensive plots here on both sides of Primorsky Highway (9 dachas or more). Two dachas have been preserved. On the seaside of the highway is Arthur Gintzel’s dacha, small, with the modern address Primorsky Highway, 566.
The Finnish Gintzels trace their origins to Gotthilf Gintzel (Gotthilf Hintzell), who was born in 1816 in Danzig, East Prussia (Gdańsk, Poland). Gotthilf (also called Gottlieb) was baptized in the Lutheran Church of St. Bartholomew in Danzig. His father was Samuel Gintzel, his mother Carolina Myauke, citizens of East Prussia. There is no further information about the father; he possibly died.
Carolina Gintzel and her son Gotthilf moved to St. Petersburg, where they were "registered" at the Church of St. Anna (the building was the Spartak cinema in Soviet times).
Carolina remained living in Petersburg, where she died in 1839. Her son moved to Finland, to Kivennapa, no later than 1835. Here Gotthilf married for the second time to Margaret-Louise Bauer, and they had three sons: Johann-Adam, Daniel, and Karl. By 1854, the family had moved to Terijoki.
In 1883, the Hintzels obtained Finnish citizenship, and in the same year, Gotthilf Gintzel died.
Until 1939, the expanded Gintzel family lived in numerous houses in Kyakösenpää.
Sources:
https://terijoki.spb.ru/photos/index.php?/category/1926
Photo: V. Mudrov
