[Images of the rooms]

Rooms

During the redesigning of the building, the courtyards on the west and east side of the plenary chamber, formerly open to the sky, were provided with a glass roof.

The session rooms of the Bundesrat committees look out, on both sides and across three floors, onto the courtyards. It is also in these rooms that there are held the sessions of the committee which mediates between Bundesrat and Bundestag. All the session rooms can boast a modern interior decoration of more or less similar design. The floors and the exterior walls are, like those of the plenary chamber, finished in smoked oak parquet and wainscoted with birch wood. The front sides, by contrast, are clad with coloured materials. The rooms are lighted artificially, by means of translucent ceilings designed at great expense. Each of them also boasts a long, U-shaped conference table of light-coloured wood with black chairs.
One of the rooms, on the eastern side of the plenary chamber, features movable and adjustable seats, so that it can be easily adapted, for example, for the viewing, on a video screen, of a session broadcast live.

The banqueting room on the 2nd Floor – just above the entrance hall – offers space for official state visits and receptions. Already in the era of the Prussian Herrenhaus the room was the scene of splendid festive gatherings.