Berlin
The Schloßbrücke is the bridge Karl Friedrich Schinkel built between 1821 and 1824. It links Unter den Linden with Museum Island and is decorated with eight groups of statues.
The dogs' bridge
As early as the 1500s there was a wooden bridge here. It was used to bring building materials to the palace.
Hunting parties with their packs of dogs used it too, heading for the forests to the west. That is why it was called Hundebrücke, the dogs' bridge.
Schinkel's bridge
In 1821 the king ordered a new bridge. Schinkel designed a stone bridge with three arches, finished in 1824.
Its width turned Unter den Linden into one continuous street from the palace to the western gate of the city. It was as wide as a square, far wider than the old wooden bridge.
Heroes in stone
The eight statues were carved between 1842 and 1857. Their sculptors were pupils of Johann Gottfried Schadow and Christian Daniel Rauch.
Together they tell the life of a warrior. The goddesses educate him, guide him in battle and finally take him up to the heavens. After the war the statues were restored in the western half of the divided city. They returned to their places in the 1980s, and in 1991 the bridge took back its old name.
