Plan of the Paul Löbe  House and Marie-Elisabeth  Lüders House    Areas for deputies    Library and  main functional area    Halls    Interior courtyards			This new parliamentary building is named after Paul Löbe who was the president of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1932. Situated on the inside bank of a bend in the Spree the building is - like its projection on the opposite north eastern bank, the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders House - part of the "federal belt" proposed in 1992 as the basis for development of the area by the architects Axel Schultes and Charlotte Frank. Aerial view of the Paul Löbe House The two-part complex of parliamentary buildings has been designed and planned by the architect Stephan Braunfels, from Munich, who won the first prize in the competition for the buildings.
				The main function of the Paul Löbe House is to house departments with support functions for parliamentary work in the nearby Reichstag. There are 510 rooms for 170 parliamentary representatives, 21 meeting rooms for parliamentary committees and some 400 rooms for the committee staffs. A restaurant caters for parliamentary representatives, the staff, and visitors. There are also eight seminar rooms for the central visitor service. All the other service departments of the parliament such as the library, hearing room and scientific service will later be in the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders House. The two buildings will, during the year 2000, be connected by a bridge with one level open for public use, and the other, at the level of the fifth floor, for the use of staff and representatives.
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