The Brandenburg Gate at Pariser Platz in the Dorotheenstadt in the district of Mitte (district center) from Berlin in the years 1788 to 1791 on the instructions of Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II by Carl Gotthard Langhans built and is the main landmark of the city and at the same time national symbol, with many important events in the history of Berlin, Germany, Europe and the world of the 20th Century are connected. The construction is attributable to the early style.

The Brandenburg Gate is the Pariser Platz with the completion of the road Unter den Linden. On the west side of the gate is the space of 18 March, in which the Strasse des 17 Of June, which crosses the zoo.

The Brandenburg Gate marked the border between East and West Berlin and thus the border between the states of the Warsaw Pact and NATO. It was up to German reunification symbol of the Cold War after 1990 and became a symbol of the reunification of Germany and Europe.

The Brandenburg Gate is a 26 meter high, 65.5 meters wide and 11 meters deep early Elbsandstein from natural stone, the stone of the Berlin firm Zeidler & Wimmel was constructed. It was modeled after the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens made. The gate has five passes, of which the medium is slightly wider, and two gate. It is supported by six per 15-meter-high Doric columns on each side dominated, according to the ionic nature kanneliert are on foot and a diameter of 1.75 meters. Structurally not satisfy the pillars of the classic models, but they are inside with a massive load-bearing masonry construction. The Attica and the insides of the passages are covered with reliefs, including deeds of Hercules show. In the two large gate are sculptures of the Roman war god Mars, the sword stuck in the vagina, and the goddess Minerva with a lance. The models of the two statues came from Johann Gottfried Schadow from the year 1792. Mars was developed by Carl Friedrich Wichmann prepared, Minerva by Johann Daniel Meltzer. The latter was destroyed during the Second World War and from 1951 to 1952 through a copy of the sculptor collective Kranolda replaced

On both sides of the gate were always gate of the military Guard and the Steuereinnehmer. After resignation of the Customs and Akzisemauer 1867/1868 superseded the Schinkel-pupil Heinrich Strack it through open 1868 pillars hall, whose design he now was able to align the gate.

The gate is crowned by an approximately five-meter-high sculpture in copper-driven, which also was made by Schadow. It represents the winged goddess of victory, which has a four-horse-drawn wagon (Quadriga) in the city hineinlenkt.

The Pariser Platz is about 1 ½ square hectare Dorothee place in the town in the district center of Berlin.

On the east side of the Brandenburg Gate located, it forms the conclusion of the boulevard Unter den Linden and the counterpart to the place of the 18th March on the other side of the gate. There ends the zoo from the 17th Street crossing June.

From 1945 until German reunification was the Pariser Platz near the border between East and West Berlin and has been since the Wall in 1961, part of the death strip. Since the fall of 1989, the formerly locked room again for pedestrians freely accessible.

The Pariser Platz was from 1732 to 1734 as part of the second baroque city expansion under Friedrich Wilhelm I, and with several palace built. The original name of the place was - according to its shape - "quadrilateral" or "Quarree." Together with the same time incurred places, "Octagon" or "Octogon" (today Leipziger Platz) and the circular "roundabout" (today Mehring Square), he gave the new city borders.

In 1814 he received during the conquest of Paris by Prussian troops in the liberation wars on its current name. From about 1850 was the construction of the square in classicist style uniform. In 1880 designed the horticulture director Hermann Powerful new place.

The Pariser Platz was heavily during the Second World War destroyed. Later the buildings were totally demolished, only remnants of the Academy of Arts remained there. Only after the fall of the Berlin Wall was from 1993 with the reconstruction of the square as a whole started. These had called the Berlin Senate, including criteria for certain buildings, including a maximum building height of 22 m and a cladding of the facades with stone: historical elements and modern design should result in a unit to participate in the "golden age" of the place to see.

Originally, the federal highways 2 and 5 on the Pariser Platz. After the transformation of the square into a pedestrian zone is now the route south on Glinkastrasse, Behren Street and Ebertstraße to the Pariser Platz herumgeführt.