3D print the Brandenburg Gate
A free, printable model of the Brandenburg Gate with its columns and chariot sculpture, and the squares, avenues and park of central Berlin around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Brandenburg Gate
Berlin's Brandenburg Gate is a neoclassical monument from the 18th century. It stands in the Mitte district, where Unter den Linden meets Ebertstraße, on the site of an earlier city gate that began the route out of Berlin toward Brandenburg an der Havel. King Frederick William II of Prussia commissioned it, and the royal architect Carl Gotthard Langhans designed it. Construction ran from 1788 to 1791.
The central portion draws on the Roman triumphal arch, yet its style is among the earliest Greek Revival work in Germany. Twelve fluted Doric columns, six on each side, form five passageways, and the design follows the Propylaea, an entrance building to the Acropolis in Athens. At first, ordinary citizens could pass only through the outermost two openings on each side. On top stands a quadriga, a four-horse chariot with a goddess figure driving it, made by Johann Gottfried Schadow. It was the first quadriga group made since antiquity.
The gate was first called the Friedenstor, or Peace Gate, and it first carried traffic in August 1791, ahead of its completion. After World War II and through the Cold War, the Berlin Wall blocked the gateway until the wall fell in 1989, and for almost three decades it stood as a symbol of the city's division. Since reunification in 1990 the gate has been seen as a symbol of European unity and peace as well as of the turbulent histories of Germany and Europe.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 7 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 9 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 11 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Rows of slender columns
- Tall, slender fluted columns carry the whole gate. Print friendly adapts the fine fluting to the print scale, while Full detail keeps it on a larger print; print slowly so the columns stay clean.
- The tiny chariot group
- The chariot and four horses on top are the smallest part of the model. Use a larger print or Full detail, with 0.12–0.16 mm layers, to keep the horses recognizable.
- One piece with the ground
- The Brandenburg Gate is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Brandenburg Gate takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Brandenburg Gate is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Brandenburg Gate STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Brandenburg Gate grows with the print: about 7 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
