Brandenburg cuisine Bernau but the famous "Bernauer Bier" was last produced in Friedrichshagen, a district belonging to Berlin. In the surroundings of the city Werder (Havel) many fruits are grown and processed to fruit vines. Of course there are also several distilleries manufacturing fruit brandies. Brandenburg cuisine The cuisine of Brandenburg, a region of Germany, is considered rather down-to-earth compared to other cuisines. Because many people in Brandenburg have Slavonic roots, the cuisine is very much influenced by their habits and customs, such as is the case in Mecklenburg and Pomerania. Due to the numerous greater and smaller inland lakes in Brandenburg
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