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 then suburbs. The new gate was commissioned by Frederick William II of Prussia to represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the Court Superintendent of Buildings, and built between 1788 and 1791, replacing the earlier simple guardhouses which flanked the original gate in the Customs Wall. The gate consists of twelve Doric columns, six to each side, forming five passageways. Citizens originally were allowed to use only the outermost two on each side. Atop the gate is a Quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses, sculpted by Johann Gottfried Schadow. The new gate was originally named the