King Albert Theatre [Bad Elster]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Bad Elster, Germany
description: theater in Bad Elster @nl
alternative label: King Albert Theatre
EUTA building identifier: 3216
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
City: Bad Elster
GPS: Point(12.2384 50.2824)
Wikidata source: Q21142072
opening date: 1914-05-22T00:00:00Z
theatrEurope table: HST_0105
member Perspectiv: yes
context: No heritage stage machinery contact Perspectiv: Stephan Seitz, marketing director
context: Thus the Royal Theatre Society, founded in Bad Elster in 1912, commissioned the Chemnitz-based architects Alfred Zapp and Erich Basarke with designing and constructing of a modern, representative theatre.After two years of construction, the present-day King Albert Theatre was inaugurated by His Royal Highness King Frederic August III of Saxony on May 22, 1914. Since then, the venue is considered to be one of the most significant court theatres ever.
Address: Theaterplatz 1, 08645 Bad Elster
Web: koenig-albert-theater.de
Member of: PERSPECTIV
Propertylabel: 9
Source URL: König Albert Theater
structure replaced by: Albert Theatre at the Brunnenberg [Bad Elster]
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today