Pariser Platz
Pariser Platz owes its identity to victory politics as much as to urban design. The square lies immediately behind the Brandenburg Gate at the end of Unter den Linden, where Carl Gotthard Langhans’s Neoclassical gate was completed in the early 1790s. Before 1814, the space was known simply as Viereck or Quarree—the Square—and in March 1814 it was renamed Pariser Platz to commemorate the Sixth Coalition’s victory over the French Empire after the Battle of Paris, following the overthrow of Napoleon. In the eighteenth century, the Brandenburg Gate served as the main western gate in the Customs Wall around Berlin, linking the ceremonial city axis to the movement of troops and trade. Before the Second World War, Pariser Platz was Berlin’s grandest square, encircled by the American and French embassies and the Adlon Hotel. …
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