The Old Winter Garden

This small extension to the Garden facade of the Reich’s Chancellery contained a Garden Room, which was originally built when the old Palais was renovated to become Bismarck’s Chancellery. Hitler gave Paul Ludwig Troost the task of changing the Garden Room into a dining room, with an attached winter garden. Troost’s plan was to build the winter garden on the western side of the dining room. In the northern section of the winter garden, he would build a staircase to connect the dining room to the roof terrace.