place

Bundeshaus (Bonn)

Buildings and structures in BonnFormer seats of national legislaturesGovernment buildings completed in 1933Government buildings in GermanyLandmarks in Germany
Legislative buildings in Europe
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F010479 0006, Bonn, Bundeshaus mit Fahnen
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F010479 0006, Bonn, Bundeshaus mit Fahnen

The Bundeshaus (Federal House) is a building complex in Bonn, Germany, which served as the Provisional Parliament House of West Germany, and thus the seat of the German Bundestag and Bundesrat, from 1949 until 1999. The main building, constructed between 1930 and 1933, served as a Pedagogical Academy until the end of the Second World War. After the resolution of the Hauptstadtfrage (Capital Question) in 1949 in favor of Bonn, the structure was converted into the provisional seat of the Bundestag and Bundesrat. For over forty years it served as the seat of both constitutional bodies. The Bundeshaus was expanded and renovated numerous times until these institutions were transferred to Berlin after the Hauptstadtbeschluss (Capital Resolution) in 1999, nine years after the German reunification. The parliamentary chamber then became the "Internationale Kongresszentrum Bundeshaus Bonn", now known as the "World Conference Center Bonn", in which national and international conferences take place. The southern part of the building is to become the headquarters of the Climate Secretariat of the United Nations as part of the "UN-Campus", including the former Abgeordnetenhochhaus and the office block known as "Langer Eugen" (Tall Eugene, nickname of Eugen Gerstenmaier, former President of the Bundestag). The Haus der Geschichte provides an opportunity to book tours and to visit the former Bundesrat.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Bundeshaus (Bonn) (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Bundeshaus (Bonn)
Platz der Vereinten Nationen, Bonn

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Bundeshaus (Bonn)Continue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 50.719444444444 ° E 7.1241666666667 °
placeShow on map

Address

World Conference Center Bonn

Platz der Vereinten Nationen
53113 Bonn (Stadtbezirk Bonn)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
mapOpen on Google Maps

Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F010479 0006, Bonn, Bundeshaus mit Fahnen
Bundesarchiv B 145 Bild F010479 0006, Bonn, Bundeshaus mit Fahnen
Share experience

Nearby Places

Deutsche Post DHL Group
Deutsche Post DHL Group

Deutsche Post AG, trading as Deutsche Post DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is one of the world's largest courier companies. The postal division delivers 61 million letters each day in Germany, making it Europe's largest such company. The Parcel division DHL is a wholly owned subsidiary claimed to be present in over 220 countries and territories.Deutsche Post DHL Group is the successor to the German mail authority Deutsche Bundespost, which was privatized in 1995 and became a fully independent company in 2000. Since its privatization, Deutsche Post has significantly expanded its business area through acquisitions. In late 2014, the group acquired StreetScooter GmbH, a small manufacturer of electric vehicles. Two years later, the group acquired UK Mail, a business-focused postal service in the UK for US$315.5 million (£243 million). The former company became a division of the Deutsche Post European parcel network.The 2016 earnings of Deutsche Post DHL Group before interest and taxes (EBIT) was €3.491 billion (up 44.8 percent over 2015), with a net profit of €2.64 billion on revenue of €57.334 billion. Return on equity, before taxes, was 27.7 percent. The group's long term credit rating, in November 2016, was BBB+ with a Stable outlook per Fitch's.Deutsche Post AG is listed on the Börse Frankfurt (Frankfurt Stock Exchange) as DPW and is in the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index. In 2016, 20.5% of the group's shares were held by the state-owned KfW bank; 79.5% were freely floating: 65.6% held by institutional and 10.8% by private investors.