The Brandenburg Gate is an eighteenth century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany, and one of the country's best known landmarks. It was built between 1788 and 1791 on the orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, to a design by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans, on the site of a former city gate that had marked the start of the road to Brandenburg an der Havel, the old capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The bronze quadriga that crowns the gate is the work of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.
Facts
Building Type Completed Year Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
Standing Status Building Type
Building Type (category) Connections
Has Building Type
Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.
In Style
Source Wikipedia: Brandenburg Gate
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Germany, located there.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Brandenburg Gate
WikipediaLead paragraph, opening sentence describing it as an 18th-century neoclassical monument
is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany.
Lead paragraph, sentence giving the 1788 to 1791 construction span
The current structure was built from 1788 to 1791 by orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, based on designs by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans.
Lead paragraph, opening sentence naming Berlin, Germany
is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany.
Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
The Brandenburg Gate is an eighteenth century neoclassical monument in Berlin, Germany, and one of the country's best known landmarks. It was built between 1788 and 1791 on the orders of King Frederick William II of Prussia, to a design by the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans, on the site of a former city gate that had marked the start of the road to Brandenburg an der Havel, the old capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. The bronze quadriga that crowns the gate is the work of the sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow.
- In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, infobox architectural_style field: Neoclassical
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Brandenburg Gate
- Wikidata Q82425, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
- Wikidata Q82425, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
View the Source3. Brandenburg Gate (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata height (P2048) statement: 26.0Quote, Wikidata height (P2048) statement: 26.0
Wikidata item Q82425, property P2048 (height): 26.0 m (converted to metres, preferred/normal rank, non-deprecated)
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