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“We currently assume that the color pigments can be completely removed from the sandstone during the course of the week, so that the Brandenburg Gate for the Berlin Marathon will be color-free again,” said spokeswoman Johanna Steinke. The affected walls in adjacent rooms and the floors would also be cleaned by the company. Information about the total costs is not yet possible, the spokeswoman said. The marathon will take place next Sunday.
According to their information, the contracted company started the first works on Sunday. At the same time, graffiti protection was applied to the cleaned area in the lower part of the columns. “Lifts have been requested today for work in the upper part of the columns,” said the BIM spokeswoman. Late Monday morning, employees of PSS Interservice GmbH, who say they have been responsible for the maintenance of the Brandenburg Gate since 1990, were on site and sprayed the pillars.
14 arrests
Members of the Last Generation spray-painted the monument on Sunday. According to the police, fourteen people have been arrested. On Monday, the protest group caused many traffic jams and disruption with more than twenty road blocks in Berlin.
The classicist Brandenburg Gate, built at the end of the 18th century, once marked Berlin’s western border. Architecturally it is modeled on the Propylaea of the Acropolis in Athens. During the division of Germany it was located directly behind the Berlin Wall in the eastern part of the city. When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, it became accessible again.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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