page_title: Bundesrat of Germany
section_title: Seat
hierarchical_section_title: Bundesrat of Germany / Seat
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bundesrat Deutschland Hornjoserbsce: Pruski knježi dom w Berlinje, sydło Zwjazkoweje rady.
context_page_description: The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the federal level. The Bundesrat meets at the former Prussian House of Lords in Berlin. Its second seat is located in the former West German capital of Bonn.
  The Bundesrat participates in legislation, alongside the Bundestag, the directly elected representation of the people of Germany, with laws affecting state competences and all constitutional changes requiring the consent of the body. For its similar function, it is sometimes described as an upper house of parliament along the lines of the United States Senate, the Canadian Senate or the British House of Lords.
  Bundesrath was the name of similar bodies in the North German Confederation and the German Empire. Its predecessor in the Weimar Republic was the Reichsrat.
  The political makeup of the Bundesrat is affected by changes in power in the states of Germany, and thus by elections in each state. Each state delegation in the Bundesrat is essentially a representation of the state government and reflects the political makeup of the ruling majority or plurality of each state legislature.
context_section_description: From 1894 to 1949 the Bundesrat met in the same building as the Reichstag, today known as Reichstagsgebäude. After 1949, the Bundesrat gathered in the Bundeshaus in Bonn, along with the Bundestag, at least most of the time. A wing of the Bundeshaus especially built for the Bundesrat.
  In 2000 the Bundesrat moved to Berlin, as the Bundestag had done the year before. The Berlin seat of the Bundesrat is the former Prussian House of Lords building. The Bundesrat wing in Bonn is still used as a second seat.
caption: Bundesrat building, Berlin in 2007
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