Dorotheenstadt
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is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central Berlin, Germany, which forms part of the locality of Mitte within the borough also called Mitte. It contains several famous Berlin landmarks: the Branden
Dorotheenstadt (E) within Berlin in 1688
The burnt out Dorotheenstadt Church on Neustädtische Kirchstraße in 1950 (removed in 1968)
Brandenburg Gate
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The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany. One of the best-known landmarks of the country, it was erected on the site of a former city gate that marked the start
Dorotheenstadt
…which forms part of the locality (Ortsteil) of Mitte within the borough (Bezirk) also called Mitte. It contains several famous Berlin landmarks: the Brandenburg Gate, the Pariser Platz, and Unter den Linden. Dorotheenstadt is bordered in the west by the Großer Tiergarten, in the north by the River Spree, in the…
View from Pariser Platz on the east side, 2008
An early 19th-century engraving comparing the recently constructed Brandenburg Gate (lower picture) to (an imagined restoration of) its historical model: the Propylaea of the Acropolis of Athens
Frontal view with the Pariser Platz looking west towards Straße des 17. Juni
The quadriga and bas-reliefs