Brandenburg Gate peace in post–Cold War Europe. On 9 November 2009, Chancellor Angela Merkel, walked through Brandenburg Gate with Russia's Mikhail Gorbachev and Poland's Lech Wałęsa as part of the 20-year celebration of tearing down the Berlin Wall. On 13 August 2011, Germany marked the 50th anniversary of the day the Berlin Wall started to go up with a memorial service and a minute of silence in memory of those who died trying to flee to the West. "It is our shared responsibility to keep the memory alive and to pass it on to the coming generations as a reminder to stand
Brandenburg City Canal Brandenburg City Canal The Brandenburg City Canal, or Brandenburger Stadtkanal in German, is a canal in the German state of Brandenburg. It provides a route through the centre of the city of Brandenburg an der Havel. At its upstream end, the canal diverges from the River Havel upstream of the "Vorstadtschleuse Brandenburg" lock. It then passes through the city centre, before descending through the "Stadtschleuse Brandenburg" lock into a lower level of the River Havel, here known as the "Brandenburger Niederhavel". Traffic from the canal then follows the "Brandenburger Niederhavel" downstream. The Brandenburg City Canal is now largely used by