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Berlin Brandenburg Gate
About the Brandenburg Gate
The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, built on the site of a former city gate that marked the start of the road from Berlin to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel. It has become a symbol of German unity and peace.
Commissioned by King Frederick William II and built between 1788 and 1791 to designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the gate replaced a customs barrier in Berlin's city wall and borrowed its form from the Propylaea of the Athenian Acropolis. Johann Gottfried Schadow's quadriga was added in 1793; Napoleon carried it to Paris in 1806, and it returned in 1814. Its modern meaning came from division: after the Berlin Wall went up in August 1961 the structure stood in the closed border strip, unreachable from either side, and it was the backdrop for Ronald Reagan's 1987 speech. It reopened on 22 December 1989, and now functions chiefly as a marker of German reunification.
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Icon details
- Symbol
- Berlin Brandenburg Gate
- City
- Berlin, Germany
- Region
- Europe
- Category
- Landmarks
- Format
- SVG (scalable vector), plus PNG export at 512px
- File
de-berlin.svg- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 — free for commercial use with attribution
- Added
Attribution — copy this when you use the icon:
Berlin Brandenburg Gate icon by Studio Partdirector, svgcities.com/germany/berlin, CC BY 4.0
