Palace Theatre in Valtice [Valtice]
type: Item
label: Zámecké divadlo Valtice @cs
description: Theatre building in Valtice, Czech Republic, opened in 1700
description: theater in Valtice @nl
alternative label: Palace Theatre in Valtice
EUTA building identifier: 440
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Czech Republic
City: Valtice
GPS: Point(16.7561 48.742)
Wikidata source: Q47008513
opening date: 1790-01-01T00:00:00Z
Building date: 1700-01-01T00:00:00Z
theatrEurope table: HST_0040
context: No machinery yet? At least partial picture about the theatre appearance is provided by the photographs, made before theatre destruction in 1940s, and orientation of the hall and fragments of wooden constructions from 1963. Rectangular hall has a size of 25 × 13 m, the height of the brickwork is today circa 9 m. The stage occupied roughly 17 m of this area, orchestra pit, separated from the stage by wooden partition with doors on sides, 2 m and auditorium residual 6 m. The hall floor sloped in the direction from auditorium of the area, where the space below the stage was interrupted by a passage to Barvířská ulice.
context: Architects Mikuláš Hulec and Daniel Špička from Prague association CORA (Centrum pro ochranu a restaurování architektury – Centre for protection and restoration of architecture) work at the Valtice Theatre restoration. Within the project Baroque and Classicist theatres, being realized thanks to the support of Packard Humanities Institute (USA), a project of future theatre renovation came into existence in 2006. It was possible to design a theatre reconstruction, which should be as close to the original appearance as possible, on the basis of an analysis of historical photographs, a surveying from 1963 and a research of another preserved theatres from 18th century. The reconstruction project has all the necessary permits today (March 2009) and the funding possibilities are being examined.
Address: Zámek 1, 691 42 Valtice
architectural style: Czech Baroque architecture
architect: Karel Jan Rudzinsky
Redevelopment date: 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z
Building relation: freestanding building
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: stage preserved
Preservation state: Disused
building purpose: château
Theatre space character: theatre premises
closure date: 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
Importance: Local importance
Wikidata instance: Q4240267
Wikidata instance: Q24354