Staatstheater Nürnberg

The opera house was built according to the plans of the Berlin architect Heinrich Seeling. After four years of construction "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" was on September 1, 1905, the official reopening of the municipal theater with a performance of Richard Wagner instead. Built of sandstone and limestone house offers in its outer appearance through stylized Renaissance and Baroque forms. The interior is completely divorced from the historical style and was decorated picturesque and plastically rich. A gros this Art Nouveau decoration has been lost as a result of the transformation according to the ideas of the Nazi rulers in 1935th After damage during the war, many lost details of the original design have been reconstructed in the course of 1998 completed refurbishment. Thus, the Opera House is among the finest and most distinctive theaters of Germany.