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Brandenburg Gate

The Brandenburg Gate is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in . One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former that marked the start of the road from Berlin to , the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: triumphal arch in Berlin, Germany
  • Also known as: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Address: Pariser Platz 1, Mitte, Berlin, 10117
  • Wheelchair access: yes
Photo: Steve Collis, CC BY 2.0.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pariser Platz and Holocaust Memorial.

Square
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is a square in the of , Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of boulevard. The square is named after the French capital of to commemorate the victory of the Sixth Coalition over the French Empire at the Battle of Paris, and is one of the main focal points of the city.

Photo: NoRud, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, is a memorial in to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold. is situated 270 metres south of Brandenburg Gate.

Square
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The is a public square in - located immediately west of the Brandenburg Gate, opposite , at the junction of Ebertstraße and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichstadt.

Quarter
is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

Quarter
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was an independent suburb of , and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . It is identical to the town of , founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

Brandenburg Gate

Latitude
52.51628° or 52° 30′ 59″ north
Longitude
13.3777° or 13° 22′ 40″ east
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Inception
1788—1791
Height
26 metres (85 feet)
Open location code
9F4MG98H+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 518071791
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­gate
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­monument
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6698677
Wiki­data ID
Q82425
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Brandenburg Gate” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Brandenburgse Poort”
  • Albanian: “Porta e Brandenburgut”
  • Arabic: “بوابة براندنبورغ”
  • Arabic: “بوابة براندنبيرج”
  • Arabic: “بوابه براندنبورغ”
  • Aragonese: “Puerta de Brandemburgo”
  • Armenian: “Բրանդենբուրգյան դարպասներ”
  • Asturian: “Puerta de Brandeburgu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Brandenburq qapısı”
  • Balinese: “Kori Brandenburg”
  • Bashkir: “Бранденбург ҡапҡаһы”
  • Basque: “Brandeburgoko Atea”
  • Belarusian: “Брандэнбургская брама”
  • Belarusian: “Брандэнбургскія вароты”
  • Belarusian: “Брандэнбурская брама”
  • Belarusian: “Брандэнбурскія вароты”
  • Bengali: “ব্র্যান্ডেনবার্গ গেট”
  • Bosnian: “Brandenburška vrata”
  • Breton: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Breton: “Dor Brandenburg”
  • Bulgarian: “Бранденбургска врата”
  • Bulgarian: “Бранденбургската врата”
  • Catalan: “Porta de Brandenburg”
  • Chinese: “Brandenburger Mn̂g”
  • Chinese: “勃兰登堡门”
  • Chinese: “勃蘭登堡門”
  • Chinese: “布蘭登堡門”
  • Croatian: “Brandenburška vrata”
  • Czech: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Czech: “Brandenburská brána”
  • Czech: “Braniborská brána”
  • Danish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kêberê Brandenburgi”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Keyberê Brandenburgi”
  • Dutch: “Brandenburger Poort”
  • Dutch: “Brandenburger Tor (Berlijn)”
  • Dutch: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Erzya: “Бранденбургонь ортат”
  • Esperanto: “Brandenburga pordego”
  • Esperanto: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Esperanto: “Pordo de Brandenburgo”
  • Estonian: “Brandenburgi värav”
  • Finnish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Finnish: “Brandenburgin portti”
  • French: “Brandeburger Tor”
  • French: “porte de Brandebourg”
  • French: “Porte de Brandebourg”
  • Galician: “Porta de Brandeburgo”
  • Galician: “Porta de Brandemburgo”
  • Galician: “Porta de Brandenburgo”
  • Georgian: “ბრანდენბურგის კარიბჭე”
  • Georgian: “ბრანდენბურგის ჭიშკარი”
  • German: “Brandenburger Tor (Berlin)”
  • German: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Greek: “Πύλη του Βραδεμβούργου”
  • Greek: “Πύλη του Βρανδεμβούργου”
  • Greek: “Πύλη του Μπράντεμπουργκ”
  • Hebrew: “שער ברנדנבור”
  • Hebrew: “שער ברנדנבורג”
  • Hindi: “ब्रांडेनबर्ग द्वार”
  • Hungarian: “Brandenburgi kapu”
  • Icelandic: “Brandenborgarhliðið”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Brandenburg”
  • Irish: “Geata Brandenburg”
  • Italian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Italian: “Porta di Brandeburgo”
  • Japanese: “ブランデンブルクの門”
  • Japanese: “ブランデンブルク門”
  • Japanese: “ブランデンブルグ門”
  • Javanese: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Javanese: “Gapura Brandenburg”
  • Javanese: “Gerbang Brandenburg”
  • Javanese: “Régol Brandenburg”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರಾಂಡೆನ್ಬರ್ಗ್ ಗೇಟ್”
  • Korean: “브란덴부르크 개선문”
  • Korean: “브란덴부르크 문”
  • Latin: “Porta Brandenburgensis”
  • Latvian: “Brandenburgas vārti”
  • Latvian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Lithuanian: “Brandenburgo vartai”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Macedonian: “Бранденбуршка порта”
  • Malay: “Gerbang Brandenburg”
  • Marathi: “ब्रांडेनबुर्ग गेट”
  • Marathi: “ब्रांडेनबुर्ग फाटक”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Brandenburger Mn̂g”
  • Mongolian: “Бранденбургийн хаалга”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Norwegian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pòrta de Brandeborg”
  • Panjabi: “ਬ੍ਰਾਂਡਨਬਰਗ ਗੇਟ”
  • Pennsylvania German: “brandenburg tor”
  • Persian: “برندنبرگ”
  • Persian: “دروازه براندنبورگ”
  • Persian: “دروازهٔ براندنبورگ”
  • Polish: “Brama Brandenburska”
  • Polish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Portuguese: “Porta de Brandemburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Porta de Brandenburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Portão de Brandeburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Portão de Brandemburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Portas de Brandeburg”
  • Portuguese: “Portas de Brandeburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Portas de Brandemburgo”
  • Portuguese: “Portas de Brandenburgo”
  • Romanian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Brandenburg”
  • Romanian: “Poarta Brandenburgică”
  • Russian: “Бранденбургер-тор”
  • Russian: “Бранденбургские ворота Калиниград”
  • Russian: “Бранденбургские ворота”
  • Russian: “Калиниград Бранденбургские ворота”
  • Serbian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Serbian: “Бранденбуршка капија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brandenburška kapija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brandenburška vrata”
  • Slovak: “Brandenburská brána”
  • Slovenian: “Brandenburška vrata”
  • Spanish: “Brandenburger Tor (Berlin)”
  • Spanish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Brandeburgo”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Brandemburgo”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Brandenburgo”
  • Swedish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Tagalog: “Tarangkahang Brandeburgo”
  • Tagalog: “Tarangkahang Brandenburgo”
  • Tamil: “பிரண்டன்புர்கு வாயில்”
  • Tamil: “பிரான்டென்போர்க் வாயில்”
  • Thai: “ประตูบรันเดนบูร์ก”
  • Thai: “ประตูบรันเดนเบือร์ก”
  • Thai: “ประตูบรันเดินบวร์ค”
  • Thai: “ประตูบรานเดนบวร์ก”
  • Turkish: “Brandenburg Gate”
  • Turkish: “Brandenburg Kapısı”
  • Turkish: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Twi: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Ukrainian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Ukrainian: “Бранденбурзькі ворота”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Braniborske wrota”
  • Urdu: “براندنبورگ گیٹ”
  • Urdu: “برانڈ نبرگ گیٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Brandenburg darvozasi”
  • Venetian: “Porta de Brandeburgo”
  • Vietnamese: “Cổng Brandenburg”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ganghaan Brandenburg”
  • Welsh: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Western Frisian: “Brandenburger Tor”
  • Western Panjabi: “برانڈنبرگ بوآ”
  • Western Panjabi: “برانڈنبرگ گیٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “勃兰登堡门”
  • Yue Chinese: “勃蘭登堡門”
  • “Brandenburger Tor”

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