Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate—Brandenburger Tor—was erected as an 18th-century statement of Prussian power on the site of an older city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to Brandenburg an der Havel. The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 on the orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, using designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans. It fused the Roman triumphal arch tradition with one of the first Greek Revival examples in Germany, supported by twelve fluted Doric columns, six on each side. Crowning the gateway was the quadriga, and the bronze horses were made by sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow. Through its history, the gate became a stage for major events, and during the Cold War the Berlin Wall obstructed the crossing until the Wall’s fall in 1989, turning the gateway into a long marker of division. …
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