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MOUNTED ON A BRIDGE: THE GREAT ELECTOR RISES

Today in Berlin: 12 July, 1703

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Today we are travelling back in time to the eighteenth century: on this day in 1703 the mounted statue of Brandenburg’s Great Elector, Friedrich Wilhelm, was unveiled on the Lange Brücke (now Rathaus…

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