Today on the seminar program at work we had a visit to the Reichstagsgebäude, which is the German Parliament building. I had seen people making long queues in the hot weather in front of the majestic building before so I didn’t even think I would want to go in. This time we slid through the back door and up to a congress room to listen a lecture about EU’s politics. After the yawning experience we got to visit the balcony and that’s when I started to get more interested. A spiral staircase rose up inside a modern glass cupola. The audio guide led me all the way up and the panorama view of Berlin was surrounding me.
Five interesting things about the Reichstagsgebäude:
- The cupola of the Parliament building got burned in the 1933 after Hitler acceded to the “throne” and the Nazis blamed (who else than) the communists for the misdeed thus having an excuse to start smothering the leftist fire.
- In the II World War the maternity ward of the bombed but famous clinic Charité worked in the building.
- During the cold war the GDR fighter planes often disturbed the sessions inside the building, which at that time was narrowly on the West German side. Michael Jackson performed on the stage outside the Reichstag in 1988. The pop concerts must have irritated the GDR folks.
- The official ceremony of the unification of the Germans was held 3.10.1990 in the Reichstag, not in Bonn, which used to be the capital of West Germany.
- The new glass cupola collects water to funnels and sun light is reflected through the mirrors in to the main floor of the parliament.
(Sources: Wikipedia and Eyewitness Travel Berlin 2009)
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