CULTURAL PATRIMONY

“HISTORIC CENTER OF
BRANDENBURG GATE ”

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 It is located in the plaza de Paris.

To West:
with the square now
called Platz
LOCATION

To the north:
with the Reichstag

To the south:
The Holocaust
Memorial

serves to mark the end

of Unter den Linden
Avenue and the
beginning of the
Tiergarten park
 Berlin Academy of
CONTEXT

Pariser Platz
the Arts
Mall LuisenForum

Hotel Brandenburger CONTIPARK

Tor Potsdam Edificio del Reichstag Tiefgarage Luisenplatz
 It begins in the year 1788, when the
Next to this door there were another
monarch Frederick William II of Prussia
17, in total 18, whose names indicated
entrusts the architect Carl Gottahard the destination to which it left from
Langhans with his construction each of them.
HISTORY

January 30, 1933, a parade

through Berlin was organized
and thousands of brown-collar
assault troops and SS members
passed under the Brandenburg
Gate
 The end of the Second World War brought with it the devastation of
Berlin from which the Brandenburg Gate was not spared, although it
managed to survive.
HISTORY

Before the construction of the Berlin Wall, it was the restoration of the Gate.
 The Brandenburg Gate is one of the most important
monuments of Berlin and the symbol of the city.

This structure has been

HISTORY

associated with war and war

victories, to the point of
having been chosen as the
emblem of Napoleon's troops.

It was inaugurated in the year 1789 and the reason for its
construction was to build a monument to peace
 In its origins not everyone could
cross the monument in its
broadest part.
HISTORY

The monumental gate

was built in classicist
style, being one of the
first neoclassical
buildings in the city.

Of its five passages the central

one was reserved to the
members of the royalty.
 After the defeat of Napoleon,
Originally, Irene, the goddess of peace who
the architect Karl Friedrich
guided the chariot, carried a spear with two
Schinkel created the
shields and a helmet at the top.
definitive design:
HISTORY

It consists of an iron cross

enclosed in a crown of oak
leaves and with an eagle with
wings spread above and the
The designer of the goddess became the goddess
sculpture, Johann of victory.
Schadow was inspired by
the Roman standards and
placed an eagle on a
laurel wreath
 After the Second World War, the quadriga was rebuilt
but without the Schinkel iron eagle and cross, as they
associated it with Germanic militarism.
HISTORY

One of the horse

heads that is
exhibited in the
Markisches Museum
in Berlin, is preserved
as a fragment of the
original sculpture.

In 1991 after German reunification, the eagle and the

iron cross were replaced
 A relief made of sandstone was placed, in which it depicts Hercules receiving
trophies from Nike, The Goddess of Victory.
HISTORY

In the relief appear other goddesses representing the

goddess of wisdom and abundance.
 20 reliefs are those that decorate the five passages that
HISTORY are on each side of the door

They describe the different

jobs performed by Hercules

It was intended to make an allegorical comparison with

the deeds of the Emperor Frederick William II
HISTORY On the two outer walls of the door is a niche with a sculpture inside

On one side is Minerva, the

Roman goddess of wisdom.

On the other side is Mars, the god of wars.

 In the architecture, the early Neoclassical style is This architecture is distinguished by
introduced where it seeks the ideal beauty based on the use of straight lines and flat
pure lines, symmetry and proportions. surfaces such as cubes and cylinders.
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES

Horizontality
predominates that
Uses basic elements
gives a sense of of classical
balance. architecture

The constructions go
less to the detail
because they
It approaches the concentrate in the
constructive norms structuring to give an
of the old classical
impression of elegance.
models (Greco-
Roman).
 The construction is impressive with its 26 meters high,
65.5 meters long and 11 meters wide
ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES
There are reliefs throughout the structure
that represent the gods Hercules, Mars and
Minerva, something typical of the
Neoclassical style.

It was built in sandstone, with

Doric columns, it has three
bodies, one higher central and
two lateral more protruding

The main body has five street

corridors, where the central one is The sculpture of the "Quadriga" that crowns the
somewhat wider than the lateral ones Brandenburg Gate, in its attic, made in bronze
ARCHITECTURAL ANALYSIS It belongs to the early Neoclassical style.

Uses basic elements of classical Horizontality predominates that

architecture: gives a sense of balance
Doric-dominated columns
• Fronton
• Frieze
• Entablature
• Metopas
• triglyphs Presenta un
parecido con las
Construcciones
de la Acrópolis
de Atenas.

Its measurements: 26 m high, 65.5 m wide and 11 m long

 similar characteristics: it is a hexasty portico
ANALIS ARQUITECTONICO
its composition is symmetrical
They are related to the entablature is formed by
smooth architrave, frieze, with triglyphs and
metopes.

There are five passage

zones, the central one
is the widest and 4
zones are distributed,
two on each side

It is made of sandstone that is a detritic type Its columns are of Doric fluted style
sedimentary rock, of variable color, containing sand-sized
clasts.
 It can be observed that it is a horizontal quadrangular base and that in its
ANALIS ARQUITECTONICO entablature it rules on a triangular shape
 The podium stands out in which a quadriga, dedicated to
ANALIS ARQUITECTONICO the Victory (Nike) is placed Nike was the goddess of Victory is
represented as a winged sculpture
and carrying an iron cross with an
eagle

Her intention to have placed her in

the chariot was because she is
considered simply as a carrier of good
luck and to protect the entrance to
Berlin.

Later, an Iron Cross designed by the famous

The quadriga sculpture was made by German architect and painter Karl Friedrich
Johann Gottfried Schadow in 1793 Schinkel was added to the car sculpture.
at the entrance to Berlin.
 Its entablature is formed by smooth architrave, frieze,
ANALIS ARQUITECTONICO with triglyphs and metopes

on the cornice a monumental penthouse in which are

representations of beings from Greek mythology.
 You can see different characters
such as Hercules, Mars or the
ANALIS ARQUITECTONICO
It is decorated with goddess Minerva
relief sculptures
related to different
scenes of Greek
mythology

In the walls of the

street corridors as in The characters of Greek
the upper mythology included within the
termination plinth architecture were to symbolize
and the metopes of power and according to the
the entablature present classical style wanted to
highlight the ideal beauty