Still today this place is called the Amber Bay. You can visit the place in former East Prussia, where the rise of one of the later wealthiest men of the German Reich began. On the Curonian Spit in Schwarzort, in Lithuanian Juodkrantė, the young Moritz Becker, the son of poor parents, arrived as a small trader and became co-founder of the company Stantien & Becker, which operated an amber excavation here from 1862 to 1890. Later the main focus of the mining was moved to Palmnicken – in Russian Jantary. Moritz Becker, later his widow and heirs, supported many charitable projects in Königsberg.