But the Christmas lights were a nice addition, and the grand buildings make it easy to close your eyes and imagine the city back in the 1920s, when it was a cultural hotspot for the arts. It was hard to get a real feel for the place when it was covered in snow and we were totally freezing. I’d love to come back and stroll beneath the Linden Trees in the summer. It’s probably better for tourists with the new name, but personally I like the old one. It used to be called Unter den Linden, but was changed in 2009 when the new platforms opened. In the above picture I am standing near the entrance. There is a brand new U-bahn station called Brandenburger Tor here. Between main hall, exit Unter den Linden and underground platform (U55). Apparently they struggle because of the air and ground pollution, but the trees are a much beloved part of the city and are carefully tended.Īs you can see from our pictures, we didn’t get to actually see the street, or sidewalk, or even the ground at all! There was too much snow! But the trees were still beautiful, and even if we couldn’t sit and relax on the benches, we could still admire the views down to the Brandenburger Tor and Pariser Platz. The trees that are present today were planted in the 1950s. Unfortunately many of the original Linden trees were cut down in 1934/35, and the few remaining trees were cut down for firewood in the last days of the war.
Most of the city’s museums can be found nearby. The street was originally a bridle path for horses, but since the 1850s has been considered the center of Berlin’s cultural scene. The name means “Under the Linden Trees”, because of the linden (or lime) trees that border the central strip. visitberlin.Unter den Linden is the main boulevard in Berlin, running along an east/west axis from the Brandenburg Gate to the former royal palace at Lustgarten. Even today, the Brandenburg Gate stands like no other landmark for the reunified Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, 100,000 people attended the official opening of the Brandenburg Gate on Decemand shortly afterwards celebrated the first New Year's Eve here. With the division of Germany and the construction of the Wall in 1961, the Brandenburg Gate was in the restricted area and was not accessible to Berliners and visitors. It has always looked east towards the city center. In 1814 it returned to its traditional place in Berlin after the victory over the French Emperor.
It tells its own story: In 1806 Napoleon brought the Quadriga to Paris as a sign of his triumph. In 1793, the Quadriga designed by Johann Gottfried Schadow was placed on top of the Brandenburg Gate. Six Doric columns on each side are presented to the eleven-meter-deep transom. The Brandenburg Gate was built from 1788 to 1791 according to plans by Carl Gotthard Langhans and is modeled on the gateways (Propylaea) of the Athens Acropolis.
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