Stadttheater [Kempten]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Kempten, Germany
description: theater in Kempten @nl
alternative label: Stadttheater
EUTA building identifier: 620
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
City: Kempten
GPS: Point(10.3179 47.7275)
Wikidata source: Q2328254
opening date: 1754-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Theaterstraße 4
architect: Franz Sales Lochbihler
Propertylabel: 97
time frame: Baroque
Wikidata instance: Q41253
Carthalia ID: 8731
Preservation state: extant building
Note: Built before 1392 as a salt warehouse. 1654 first used as a theatre. 1754 rebuilding as a theatre. 1812-1813 installation of boxes. 1827 major interior rebuilding with three galleries by Franz Sales Lochbihler (with a painted curtain also by Lochbihler). 1896 renovation. 1921-ca.1933 and 1952-ca.1967/1978 used as a cinema named Scala. 1954-1956 rebuilding by Sepp Zwerch (reduction by the upper gallery). 638 seats. 1963-1964 renovations, 2006-2007 major renovations (audience hall restored to the 1827 decoration) and extension by a glass foyer.