until 1860, the chamber of deputies had no regular meeting place, variably holding sessions in the grand ducal palace, luxembourg city hall, and the hôtel du gouvernement. for a period after the promulgation of luxembourg's constitution in 1848, the chamber met in a primary school in ettelbruck, in the north of the country. by the late 1850s, this was becoming untenable, and to restore the grand ducal palace to the use of the grand ducal family, plans were laid for the construction of a dedicated home for the chamber in 1857 by antoine hartmann. construction began on 27 july 1858, and the building was inaugurated on 30 october 1860, upon the opening of a new parliamentary session.