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The official residence of the president of the Reichstag was rebuilt in the period 1997-1999. It is part of the historic group of buildings in the Spreeside government quarter. This group of buildings includes the Reichstag and two other, older, buildings integrated into the Jacob Kaiser House, which have been reconstructed, or are still being modernized by the Bundesbaugesellschaft Berlin. The west elevation from Ebertplatz Originally the residence, which was designed by Paul Wallot, was completed in 1904. Facing the Reichstag, the two buildings form an ensemble on the eastern side of Ebertplatz. Since September 1999, both the German Parliamentary Society and, occasionally, the Bundestag, have used the building as a site for political meetings, parliamentary receptions or other events. |
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During the period of the monarchy until 1919 the building was used by the president of the Reichstag as his official residence. During this period, a wing for domestic servants, which has since been destroyed, was added. It was only during the Weimar Republic that the vision of opening the residence as a democratic forum for political meetings and debates could be realized. After 1933, under the Nazis, although the building was still formally the official residence of the president of the Reichstag, because the parliament had been stripped of any real power, the building lost its former significance. During World War II the building was severely damaged, and was, except for its eastern part, rebuilt after the war. During the period of the GDR it was used for various purposes. In 1994 the residence was declared a protected building by Berlin's conservation officer, and two years later a painstaking restoration began, which was intended to reproduce, as far as possible, the original form of the building while at the same time connecting it to the new Jakob Kaiser House. This work was carried out under the direction of the architect Thomas van den Valentyn's Cologne design office. |
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