Reichstag - Berlin

Ahhh the Reichstag, I remember fighting my way up it and placing my Russian Flag on the top. Oh well, although I saw the Reichstag at the end of Call of Duty World at War, I had never seen it in that scary place called real life, until a week or so ago. Before I even went to Berlin I knew that I wanted to go up into the dome on the top of the Reichstag. After the Reichstag suffered damage it was only partially repaired and refurbished. It was not until the reunification of Germany that the famous architect Sir Norman Foster designed the dome that we see now. The dome, although causing controversy at the time, is now what draws tourists to this historic ...  Read the complete review

Visited here with my husband , there were small queues but nothing too bad. It is totally free to go in but you do have to pass through various security measures. Lots of glass doors and secure areas to pass through. The security is impressive but would need to be i expect being the seat of German Bundestag (parliament to you and i) . I was frisked very enthusiastically by a nice german lady! It has seen some changes due to fire and the original dome was blown up in 1945 and never being rebuilt until the recent addition of the glass dome which is really impressive. The walk up into it is fun and the views outstanding. You can look all over Berlin ...  Read the complete review

The Houses of Parliament may be bigger and more impressive, but every time I was in London they looked the same, how boring. :-) Not so the Reichstag (pronounced: raychs-tag), the German equivalent, in the course of my life I've seen it in three different varieties, if I were older, I could add a fourth. This is not so surprising, after all the building stands in Berlin, about which the art historian Karl Scheffer said in 1910, "Berlin is condemned forever to become and never to be." The original Reichstag was completed in 1894, the architect Paul Wallot designed a grandiose neo-classical building with an over-scaled above-ground basement level and ...  Read the complete review

One of the problems with being at a smallish university and studying a language other than French is the people you end up with in your classes. Actually that sounds a bit nasty, and all of the others (all 8 of them….) are great, but they study some, erm, interesting subjects. We have Gerard doing Physics, Maggie and Laura doing Biochemistry and Natalie and Christina doing Textiles among others. We have to do subject related oral presentations occasionally, which is how the Reichstag came up in conversation. One of the textile pair brought in a book showing wonderful designs, and it featured this place (which is the reason I’m writing on it now if you were ...  Read the complete review

This is one of Berlin's most important features, politically speaking. It has been constructed after the fire of the Reichstag when Hitler was in power. It's near the brandenburg gates, which at the moment is being covered up by a huge poster. The most prominient element of the Reichstag is the glass dome, resting on the top of the reichstag. It was designed by a British architect, and its purpose, is that visitors can see the politicans operating below them. There are many viewpoints of dome as it is made out of glass, and an amzing viwe of berlin can be seen. The beautiful Potsdamer Platz lights can be seen to change colour from ...  Read the complete review