Reichstag / Deutscher Bundestag - Berlin, Germany

• • Travel Guide, Destination Germany: Berlin - Reichstag Building. • Die besten, schönsten, interessantesten und beliebtesten Reiseziele, Urlaubsziele, Sehenswürdigkeiten in Deutschland: Berlin - Der Reichstag (Plenarbereich Reichstagsgebäude, Bundestag). --- The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the first parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a fire supposedly set by Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe, who was later beheaded for the crime. That verdict has been a subject of controversy over the years. The National Socialist German Workers Party used this event as casus belli to begin a purge of traitors in Berlin and to ban the Communist Party of Germany. The building remained in ruins until the reunification of Germany, when it underwent rec