Government district (Berlin)

Berlin government district is a redirect to this article. See also: The Berlin Government District Part 1: 1932–1938 .

View of the Berlin government district, 2016

The Berlin government district is the area in which the most important institutions of the executive ( federal government ) and the legislature ( German Bundestag ) have their headquarters. The core of the “political center” of the capital is in particular the Federal Chancellery , the Reichstag building and the neighboring Bundestag buildings Paul-Löbe-Haus , Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus and Jakob-Kaiser-Haus . Some of the buildings in the government district are grouped in the so-called band of the federal government .

location

Berlin Central Station on the northern edge of the government district

The government district is located in the Berlin districts of Tiergarten and Mitte . The territory currently used for parliamentary and government purposes is not based on a uniform administrative or geographical delimitation. It extends

• in the west to Bellevue Palace ,
• in the south to Zimmerstrasse,
• in the east to the fishing island ,
• in the north to Invalidenstrasse , and
• in the northeast to Friedrichstrasse .

In this area - east and west of Wilhelmstrasse - are the majority of all Berlin headquarters and ancillary seats of the German Federal Ministries , Bundesrat and Bundestag, including the offices of representatives and the administration, but also foreign embassies , media offices, business associations and other interest groups.

history

House of World Cultures , built for Interbau 1957

The government district emerged in this form after German reunification at the end of the 1990s. Originally, it was planned to concentrate parliament and government buildings mainly in new buildings in two areas in the Spreebogen north of the Reichstag and on the Spree island . The Federal Cabinet passed a corresponding location resolution in December 1992; In June 1993, the state of Berlin designated two corresponding areas in the development measure “Capital Berlin - Parliament and Government Quarter” . For financial reasons, this plan could not be maintained. The decision to limit the costs of the government move to a volume of 20 billion marks made it necessary to use the existing building stock instead of new buildings for the government buildings. Today's government district ties in geographically and in terms of the use of the building stock as well as structurally to the Berlin government district of both the GDR and the German Reich .

Institutions

Spreebogen in the government district

In the government quarter are the most important institutions of the federal government with its ministries and the German Bundestag , the parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany, as well as numerous embassies and state representations;

Bellevue Palace , seat of the Federal President

Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-House

• German Bundestag in the Reichstag building
• Federal Chancellery
• Federal Council in the Prussian manor house
• Federal Ministries
• Members ' offices in the Paul-Löbe-Haus and in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus
• Bellevue Palace as the seat of the Federal President
• German Parliamentary Society in the historic Reichstag Presidential Palace
• Representations of the federal states
• Federal Intelligence Service
• Embassies in the Tiergarten district
• Julius-Leber-Kaserne with the Bundeswehr Territorial Tasks Command

literature

• Hagen Eying, Alexander Kluy, Gina Siegel (editor): Democracy as a client. Federal buildings in Berlin from 1991 to 2000 . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Housing. 1st edition. Junius Verlag, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-88506-290-9 .
• Kaspar Kraemer : Aesthetics of the Political Space. The state's self-image as reflected in public buildings. In: Otto Depenheuer (ed.): State and beauty. Possibilities and perspectives of a state calokagathy. Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-531-14768-4 , pp. 75–87, especially pp. 85–87.
• Joannah Caborn: Creeping Turnaround - Discourses of Nation and Memory in the Constitution of the Berlin Republic. Unrast, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-89771-739-5 , chapter: The state architecture in Bonn and Berlin. Pp. 155-211.
• Klaus von Beyme : Capital planning from Bonn to Berlin. In: Wilhelm Hofmann (Hrsg.): City as a space for experience in politics. Contributions to the cultural construction of urban politics. Lit, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-643-10734-3 , pp. 13-33.
• Capital Berlin - parliament and government district - 20 years of development measure , Berlin 2013, DSK, 111 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-042350-5 .

Web links

• 20 years of development measure "Capital Berlin - Parliament and Government Quarter"
• Capital Berlin - parliament and government district - 20 years of development measures - selected projects

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A capital self-deception. In: Der Spiegel , 5/1993, pp. 44–59.
2. ↑ Development measure for the capital of Berlin, Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin 1993 (PDF; 1.6 MB).
3. ↑ The development area is shown , Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin.
4. ^ BMVI, capital city resolution of June 20, 1991, accessed on March 13, 2017