Everybody knows the Quadriga on top of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. The goddess on the chariot with the four horses is, after all, a national symbol of Ger-many. But do we really "know" the Quadriga? The plaster molding workshop in the German parliament building, which restored the plaster models of the Quadriga, revealed some astonishing insights. During World War II, the Quadriga on top of the Brandenburg Gate was molded by experts from the plaster molding shop of the Staatliche Museen. When the original group of figures was actually destroyed during the war, the plaster molding shop together with the Noack foundry was able to