A courtyard in the 
northern part of the 
Jakob Kaiser House 

Building work:  
Ground-breaking: 24 February 1997
Structural work began: November 1997
Completion and partial handover
of the official residence
of the Reichstag’s president:
 
7 July 1999
Topping-out: 23 November 1999
Interior work: May 1999 – December 2001
Completion: December 2001
Handed over:
 
23 January 2002
 
Technical details:  
Usable floor space: 53.000 m²
Total floor space 152.000 m²
Total volume: 728.000 m³
Number of offices: 1745
 
Number of floors: Deep basement
Equipment sub-basement
Basement
Ground floor
5 upper storeys
1 mezzanine
 
Number of rooms for representatives: 314 for all parliamentary parties
Area of a standard office: 18 m²
Rooms for the parliamentary parties: 1329 for the parliamentary parties which have representatives in the Bundestag
Meeting rooms for the parties: 15
Rooms for the presidium of the Bundestag : 25
Bundestag service rooms for the press, shorthand writers etc.:  
150
Halls for commissions of inquiry :


The large hall in House 3 where
commissions of inquiry meet

2
Official residence of the Reichstag’s president: For the German Parliamentary society – the association of present and former members of the German Bundestag, the Landtag, and other parliamentarians.
TV studio: 1
Canteen: 570 Plätze
4 street-level shops: Bookshop, bank, hairdresser, and retailer
Underground garage: 260 Plätze
Supplies: Via the underground goods inward
Integrated older buildings: Chamber of Technology
Official residence of the Reichstag’s president
105 Dorotheenstraße
 
 
Links to other websites
 
The BBB's projects
The Jakob Kaiser House
Steps in the planning
The building's structure
The house's users
Ecology and the Jakob Kaiser House