Berlin Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Brandenburg Metropolitan

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Brandenburger Tor Brandenburg Gate, is a monumental gate built in the 18th century as a symbol of peace. During the Cold War, when the gate is right on the border of East and West, became a symbol of a divided city.

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate became a symbol of reunified Berlin. Desolate area of the Pariser Platz during the Cold War has now been completely renovated and has regained much of the grandeur that one looks in the 19th century. Brandenburg Gate is Berlin at the end of the famous boulevard, Unter den Linden. In the past the gate was part of the Berlin Wall and gateway to the city. There is only one gate of the former wall.

The beautiful monument was designed by Carl Gotthard and commissioned by Emperor Wilhelm II. The project goal 65 meters wide and 28 meters height based on Propylaia, gateway to the Acropolis in Athens. Brandenburg Gate was built between 1778 and 1781, taking the place of another old gates. Furnishings include reliefs representing scenes from Greek mythology and lasted another four years to be fully completed.

Victory chariot drawn by four horses to be found on the Brandenburg Gate was made in 1793 by Johann Gottfried Schadow. Bronze chariot is led by the goddess of peace. Initially the Brandenburg Gate was a symbol of peace. In 1806, during the French occupation, Napoleon ordered that chariot to be taken to Paris. After the battle of Waterloo, the cart was brought back to Berlin, in an triumphant, became a symbol of victory. At that time, the market was near the gate called Pariser Platz and the chariot statue is called Victoria today after Romanian goddess with the same name.

Brandenburg Gate, which until World War II has always become a symbol of Prussian militarism, was severely damaged during the war. Then after the division of Berlin, Brandenburg Gate was found right on the border between East Berlin and West, even in the Russian sector. In 1958 the gate was restored while East Berlin to West Berlin has funded the reconstruction of Victoria statue.

After building the Berlin Wall in 1961, the market near the Brandenburg Gate, Pariser Platz has become desolate. Gate symbolized Germany's division. In the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, people gathered near the Brandenburg Gate was reopened to enjoy Berlin and German reunification. The monument was renovated again in 2001 and reopened on October 3, 2002.

Address:
Brandenburger Tor
10117 Berlin, Germany

Transportation:
Metro: U55, S1, S2, S25, exit Unter den Linden

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