Brandenburger Tor

The Brandenburg Gate in Berlin stands on the Paris place in the Dorotheenstadt in the district middle (district middle). It was established during the years from 1788 to 1791 on the instructions of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm II by Carl Gotthard Langhans and is a known landmark and national symbol with which many important events of the history of Berlin, Germany, Europe and the world of the 20th century are connected. The construction is to be assigned to the early-classicistic style.