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Brandenburg Gate (sh)




The only remaining town gate of Berlin, it is located at the western end of the avenue Unter den Linden.

Carl G. Langhans (1732-1808), who built the gate (1789-93), modeled it after the propylaeum of the Athenian Acropolis. On top was the "Quadriga of Victory," a statue of a chariot drawn by four horses. Heavily damaged in World War II, the gate was restored in 1957-58. From 1961 to 1989 the Berlin Wall shut off access to it for both eastern and western Germans; the gate was reopened in 1989 with the reunification of East and West Berlin.