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 of Beethoven at the then newly opened Brandenburg Gate. In the concluding choral movement of the symphony, the famous "Ode to Joy", the word "Freude" ("Joy") was replaced with "Freiheit" ("Freedom") to celebrate the fall of the Wall and the imminent reunification of Germany. On 2–3 October 1990, the Gate was the scene of the official ceremony to mark the reunification of Germany. At the stroke of midnight on 3 October, the black-red-gold flag of West Germany—now the flag of a reunified Germany—was raised over the Gate. On 12 July 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton spoke at the Gate about