Theater Nordhausen [Nordhausen]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Nordhausen, Germany
description: theater in Nordhausen @nl
alternative label: Theater Nordhausen
EUTA building identifier: 2851
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
City: Nordhausen
GPS: Point(10.7973 51.5033)
Wikidata source: Q46810062
opening date: 1917-09-29T00:00:00Z
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 366294.php
represented in collection: Architecture museum Berlin
Address: Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 15, 99734 Nordhausen
Propertylabel: 126
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 2054
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1913-1917 by Vetterlein, replacing a former theatre building (built 1882 as Tivoli-Theater, demolished 1912). Interior decoration by Gustav Ricken. Opened 29 September 1917 with Beethoven's Egmont ouverture and drama excerpts by Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller. Auditorium and southern part of the theatre destroyed by bombs in 1945. 1948-1949 rebuilding of the interior in simplified forms. Re-opened 15 October 1949 with Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. 1990 major renovation. Originally 629 seats, today 495 seats.