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Staatstheater Braunschweig

Großes Haus
Staatstheater Braunschweig © B. Hickmann
Staatstheater Braunschweig © B. Hickmann

Am Theater 38100 
Braunschweig 
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The Staatstheater Braunschweig can look back on a history spanning more than 300 years. As early as 1690, Duke Anton Ulrich of Braunschweig-Lüneburg opened the Theatre on the Hagenmarkt — one of the first publicly accessible theatres in the German-speaking world. Initially devoted exclusively to opera, regular dramatic performances began to take place from the mid-18th century onwards. Among the most significant were two world premières: Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in 1772, and Faust — Part One of the Tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in 1829.

 

The Staatstheater is our home away from home whilst the Stadthalle undergoes renovation.

 

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Braunschweiger Dom

Braunschweiger Dom_c_Ev.-luth. Domkirche St. Blasii zu Braunschweig
© Ev.-luth. Domkirche St. Blasii zu Braunschweig

Domplatz 5 
38100 Braunschweig 
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The former collegiate church of St Blasii, on the southern side of Burgplatz, is today an Evangelical Lutheran cathedral. It was commissioned by Henry the Lion following his return from the Holy Land, and built between 1173 and 1195 as a three-aisled vaulted basilica, replacing an earlier structure on the same site. Henry the Lion chose this church as his place of burial and was indeed interred here in 1195, alongside his consort Matilda. The building has been altered, extended, and restored on numerous occasions since its original construction.

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