In the early 1980s, the Bundestag decided to build the Schürmann-Bau to couneract the lack of room in the Langer Eugen highrise.
In 2006, fourteen years after the flood, the German state settled with three construction companies, who had to pay 55 million euros.
[5] Some parts of the building had been constructed in an inadequate manner, the defects are supposed to be repaired in 2019 and 2020 following a lengthy legal dispute.
[6] In 2022, the German television channel Phoenix announced that it would also be moving from the former ZDF studio in Bonn to the Schürmann Building in 2024.
[8] Starting from September 2004, a series of art objects created by international artists have been on display outside the Schürmann-Bau building.