Ottoneum [Kassel]
type: Item
label: Ottoneum
description: theatre building
description: Duits nationaal monument in Kassel @nl
Wikidata source: Q316298
Field: architecture
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Architekturmuseum Berlin Id: 115108.php
represented in collection: Architecture museum Berlin
GPS: Point(9.4989 51.3133)
opening date: 1888-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Steinweg 2, 34117 Kassel
Web: www.naturkundemuseum-kassel.de
City: Kassel
Country: Germany
Wikidata instance: Q33506
Wikidata instance: Q24354
Carthalia ID: 1932
Note: Built 1603-1606 as a theatre by Wilhelm Vernukken for Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel. Named in honour of Moritz's son, Otto von Hessen-Kassel (1594-1617). The Ottoneum was the first stand-alone building in Germany purposely built as a theatre. - 1696 rebuilding and conversion to an arts and natural history museum. 1943 damaged by bombs. 1949-1954 rebuilding. Used as a natural history museum.