It is the only gate that still remains of this former city wall. The Brandenburger gate was part of a wall surrounding the city. In 1958 a new quadriga was finished and placed on top of the historic gate.

The only bit left is one horse-head, now to be seen in the Markisches Museum. The original was destroyed in World War II. It was triumphantly taken back to Berlin after the Battle of Waterloo. The figure on the chariot is Eirene, the god of peace but in 1806 Napoleon during his occupation of Berlin ordered the statue to be taken to Paris. The four horse Quadriga chariot, crowning the Brandenburger gate was built in 1793 by Johann Gottfried Schadow. Nazi torch lit celebration marches of 1933 were held at the gate. In 1871 the celebration of the first real unification of Germany, called the Second Reich, with the first being the Holy Roman Empire, was held here. It was designed by Carl Gotthard as a city gate and triumphal arch and built between 17. It was modeled on the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. The Brandenburger gate was the location on the night of October 3rd, 1989, when the once divided German nation was joined together again when the Berlin wall came down. From the eastern side the Brandenburger Tor frames the large Tiergarten green parkland behind it. It was inaccessible to the public for 28 years.

The square called Pariser Platz, on the East-Berlin side of the gate became completely deserted.

The gate was right on the border between East and West Berlin, but didn't form part of the wall. In 1961 the Berlin Wall was constructed right next to the Brandenburger Tor. The Brandenburger Tor or gate, is probably the most symbolic landmark in Berlin. The street had been subject to heavy bombing but slowly the German Democratic Republic started to reconstruct most of the historic buildings in an effort to make this grand boulevard shine in all its monumental Prussian glory. After the war the boulevard was replanted again.īecause most of the road was in the East German section it was saved from being turned into a western style shopping street containing McDonalds, Starbucks, Kaufhof and Woolworth department. In the 1930s the Nazi political party replaced linden trees with flagposts. It is lined with fine buildings, shops and restaurants. This Berlin's most elegant boulevard flanked by linden trees starts at the Alexanderplaz Railway Station and stretches over the Schloss Bridge to the Schloss Platz and leads up to Brandenburg Gate. Berlin Brandenburg gate and Unter den Linden - Berlin's elegant boulevard Unter den Linden - Berlin's elegant boulevard

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