3D print the Reichstag
A free, printable model of the Reichstag and the lawns, river and nearby buildings around it in Berlin, generated from real map data in your browser.
Free, in your browser. Exports a slicer-ready 3MF.
About the Reichstag
The Reichstag stands on Platz der Republik in Berlin and is the seat of the Bundestag, Germany's parliament; the Federal Convention that chooses Germany's president also meets there. Architect Paul Wallot drew up the plans for this Neo-Renaissance building, which was built from 1884 to 1894 in Berlin's Tiergarten district, on the Spree's left bank.
Wilhelm I laid the foundation stone on June 9, 1884. The building's four corner towers stood for the four kingdoms of Germany at the time of unification: Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony and Württemberg. The original building won acclaim for a steel-and-glass cupola that counted as an engineering feat for its day. It housed the legislature of the German Empire and then of the Weimar Republic, until a serious fire in 1933 left it too damaged to use as a parliament building.
The building took further damage in World War II. After the war it was partly restored and modernized, and it hosted exhibitions and special events, because its location in West Berlin ruled out parliamentary use. The official German reunification ceremony of October 3, 1990, took place there. From 1995 to 1999, Norman Foster fundamentally redesigned it for permanent parliamentary use, and the dome of walk-in glass that now covers the plenary chamber, proposed by Gottfried Böhm, is a city landmark.
How it prints
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
| Print size | Landmark height | Scale |
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| 160 mm default | 13 mm | 1:3,750 |
| 200 mm | 16 mm | 1:3,000 |
| 256 mm | 21 mm | 1:2,344 |
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- Fine ribs on the dome
- The dome is a ribbed hemisphere, the finest curved detail on the model. Layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm keep the ribs crisp, and Print friendly adapts them to the print scale on small prints.
- Portico columns and corner towers
- A row of narrow columns carries the pediment of the portico, and each corner tower has small roof details. Print friendly adapts thin columns to the print scale; Full detail keeps them on larger prints.
- One piece with the ground
- The Reichstag is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
- In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
- Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. The Reichstag takes the building color.
- File format
- You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About this model
The Reichstag is one of more than 2,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
Common questions
Is there a Reichstag STL I can download?
Mini Skyline builds the file for you in your browser and exports 3MF, which every major slicer opens. If you need an STL, open the 3MF in your slicer and export it from there.
How big can I print it?
Any print size from 40 mm across. The Reichstag grows with the print: about 13 mm tall on the default 160 mm print. For a model larger than your printer bed, Project Mode splits the area into tiles.
Is it free?
Yes. Generation runs in your browser, with no account and nothing behind a paywall.
