Brandenburg Gate (Potsdam) make their way to the town of Brandenburg, hence the name. The gate leads walkers into the city centre pedestrian zone of "Brandenburger Straße" in an easterly direction up to priory church of St. Peter and St. Paul. Since the city wall was demolished around 1900 the Brandenburg Gate has been a free-standing structure. Brandenburg Gate (Potsdam) The Brandenburg Gate () on the "Luisenplatz" in Potsdam, not to be confused with the gate of the same name on Berlin's "Pariser Platz", was built in 1770/71 by Carl von Gontard and Georg Christian Unger by order of Frederick II of Prussia.
Brandenburg Gate Unter den Linden and Ebertstraße, immediately west of the Pariser Platz. One block to the north stands the Reichstag building, which houses the German parliament ("Bundestag"). The gate is the monumental entry to Unter den Linden, the renowned boulevard of linden trees, which led directly to the royal City Palace of the Prussian monarchs. Throughout its existence, the Brandenburg Gate was often a site for major historical events and is today considered not only as a symbol of the tumultuous history of Europe and Germany, but also of European unity and peace. In the time of Frederick William (1688), shortly