Brandenburg Gate role in 2018 European Athletics Championships. It is also the usual finish line of the Berlin Marathon. A Soviet flag flew from a flagpole atop the gate from 1945 until 1957, when it was replaced by an East German flag. Since the reunification of Germany, the flag and the pole have been removed. During the 1953 riots in East Berlin the Soviet flag was torn off by West Germans. In 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy visited the Brandenburg Gate. The Soviets hung large red banners across it to prevent him looking into East Berlin. In the 1980s, decrying the
Brandenburg an der Havel There is also a part of Brandenburg's medieval city wall, with four preserved watchtowers: "Steintorturm" and "Mühlentorturm" (in the New Town), and "Rathenower Torturm" and "Plauer Torturm" (in the Old Town). The "Brandenburg Industrial Museum" is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Brandenburg has its own theatre (Brandenburger Theater), a professional symphony orchestra (Brandenburger Symphoniker) and a wide range of local history and archaeology museums. " (By year of birth in Brandenburg an der Havel) " Brandenburg an der Havel Brandenburg an der Havel is a town in Brandenburg, Germany, which served as the capital