Heckentheater [Hannover]
type: Item
description: Theatre building in Hannover, Germany
description: theater in Hannover @nl
alternative label: Heckentheater
EUTA building identifier: 943
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Germany
City: Hannover
GPS: Point(9.6994 52.3896)
Wikidata source: Q45345809
opening date: 1692-01-01T00:00:00Z
time frame: Baroque
Wikidata instance: Q11183017
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 1892
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Open-air garden hedge theatre, built 1689-1692 by Brand Westermann (with gardener Martin Charbonnier). 1892 installation of a back wall, Kleine Kaskade, by Johann Friedrich de Münter. Ca. 1000 seats. Used for theatre performances by the Theater für Niedersachsen company and by the Kunstfestspiele Festwochen Herrenhausen summer festival. Also known as Gartentheater.