Stadsschouwburg [Mechelen]
type: Item
label: Stadsschouwburg Mechelen @nl
description: Theatre building in Mechelen, Belgium
description: theaterzaal in Mechelen, België @nl
alternative label: Stadsschouwburg
EUTA building identifier: 1516
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Belgium
City: Mechelen
Wikidata source: Q33100345
GPS: Point(4.4857 51.0291)
Address: Keizerstraat 3
Flanders Arts Institute venue ID: 135594
Postal Code: 2800
Source URL: https://www.andreas-praefcke.de/carthalia/id/131
Source URL: https://inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be/erfgoedobjecten/3467
significant date: 1611-01-01T00:00:00Z
significant date: 1775-01-01T00:00:00Z
significant date: 1811-01-01T00:00:00Z
Building date: 1480-01-01T00:00:00Z
restoration date: 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
Internal image: BE_mechelen_schouwburg.jpg
opening date: 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Kunstenpunt Wiki Qid: Q190607
Carthalia ID: 131
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built from 1477 as the palace of Margaret of York, on the site formerly occupied by the palace of the bishops of Cambrai. 1486 sold to the city of Mechelen. Subsequently used as a palace by the Habsburg princess, Margaret of Austria. 1611 ceded to the Jesuites. After the the elimination of the Jesuite religious order, used as a home for retired or invalid soldiers. Later converted into a theatre.