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1788 to 1791, when the Brandenburg Gate was built to finish the representative avenue Unter den Linden, Prussia had stopped being a European power and king Friedrich Wilhelm II was mainly interested in women.
The Brandenburg Gate was modeled on the Acropolis in Athens. On top of the gate a goddess of peace drove a carriage drawn by four hourses.
Napoleon sent the Brandenburg Gate's peace goddess, the carriage and the horses to Paris when he occupied Berlin, Bluecher returned them in 1814. The peace goddess was changed to a goddess of victory: now she held a wand, an iron cross, an oak leaf wreath and the Prussian eagle...
Pariser Platz - Paris Square in front of the Brandenburger Tor is a pedestrian area today, as exhaust fumes proved too destructive for the gate. Embassies could be found here before the Second World War, the Hotel Adlon and the house of the painter Max Liebermann.
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