Paul Löbe Building, ground floor, east hall end

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Paul Löbe Building



	Ground floor, east hall end
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This is the central hall viewed from the east. If we turn round 180 degrees, we can see the Spree and the Marie-Elisabeth Lüders Building on the other side of the river. The pedestrian bridge links the two buildings and symbolises the reunification of East and West. Along this area was where the wall used to run and during the Cold War boats were made to wait here so that anyone attempting to flee East Berlin by clinging to the hull would have to come up for air. In front of the window to the right is a bust of Paul Löbe (President of the Reichstag from 1924 to 1932). As on the west façade, wide stairways on both sides go all the way up to the top floor.