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Booking/Information

No charge is made for the services provided by the Visitor's Service of the German Bundestag.


Booking

If you have decided to visit the German Bundestag, please send a letter to the following address

Deutscher Bundestag
- Besucherdienst -
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin,
or, send a fax: +49 (0)30 - 227 30 027
or, send an e-mail to: besucherdienst@bundestag.de

Information required

• The date and time when you wish to visit the Bundestag, the number of visitors and the service you are interested in
• Please give 1 to 3 alternative dates, in case it is not possible for your visit to take place on your preferred date
• Postal address, telephone number and/or e-mail address

Please note

On account of very high levels of demand and limited capacity, we are unable to meet all requests. Registrations at short notice for visits at weekends can only be processed if they are received by the Thursday before the requested date at the latest.


Information

For further information look www.bundestag.de (English version)


General information

• The minimum age for groups taking advantage of all services, except visits to the roof terrace and dome, tour of families, "Children's Days" and the talk given on Wednesdays at 11.00 hrs, is 15 years or the 9th year of schooling.
• Disabled visitors with disabled ID, elderly or frail persons, parents with prams or buggies and visitors who have reserved a table at the roof garden restaurant are allowed to access via the entrance below the West portal to the right (West C).
• For security reasons large pieces of luggage may not be taken into the Reichstag Building. No storage facilities are available on site.
• Bags, coats, etc. are subject to an x-ray examination and visitors checked with metal detectors in the entrance area
• The German Bundestag reserves the right to alter all arrangements at short notice. Any such alterations will be announced by means of posters, etc.

Information material

All visitors are free to take the information material on the German Bundestag provided in the entrance area at the west portal and in the cloakrooms on the visitors' gallery of the Reichstag Building. Alternatively, it can be obtained in writing from:

Deutscher Bundestag
- Öffentlichkeitsarbeit -
Platz der Republik 1
11011 Berlin

or by fax: +49 (0)30 - 227 36 20 0

Information material can also be ordered online at: www.bundestag.de.


Information for those who have not booked in advance

During the winter months in particular, you can ask at the West portal, left entrance (West A) - the entrance for prebooked groups - whether any places are still available to watch a plenary sitting or attend a talk on the visitor's gallery of the plenary chamber, or take part in a tour of one of the buildings