List of cultural centers in the GDR

Wismut AG cultural center in Chemnitz

The list of cultural houses in the GDR records the condition and use of important cultural buildings erected in the German Democratic Republic.

history

From 1949 to 1989 more than 2000 cultural houses , cultural palaces and workers' clubs were built in the German Democratic Republic or set up in existing villas, inns and halls. They were often operated by combines , and in rural areas also by machine lending stations (MAS) . In line with the building doctrine of the early 1950s, it was mainly type buildings based on the type of socialist classicism or homeland security architecture that were initially carried out . The furnishings were often representative, fine materials were used, and the building decorations were designed by well-known artists. More recent buildings from the 1960s, on the other hand, are often designed in the form of international modernism, with the proportion of representative rooms being lower in favor of restaurants and lounges. At the time of the fall of the Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR , privatization by the Treuhandanstalt , the population decline , changed social behavior and the costly management of the often oversized properties led to vacancies. Although some houses had been placed under monument protection , some of them before the fall of the Wall, there was vandalism, arson and demolition. Other cultural centers, especially smaller buildings in medium-sized cities, were renovated, mostly taken over into the sponsorship of the cities and were able to reposition themselves in the changed cultural landscape.

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place	state	image	Built	architect	carrier	Furnishing	Status 1996	Status 2016
Arnstadt 50 ° 49 ′ 53 ″ N, 10 ° 57 ′ 6 ″ E	Thuringia	District culture house »CHEMA«	Before 1900 Restaurant Faber, from 1946 House of the People , from 1954 District Culture House		VEB Chemieanlagenbau Erfurt-Rudisleben	large hall, small hall, garden hall, club restaurant, lounges		demolished, replaced by a new residential and office building.
Arnstadt 50 ° 49 ′ 48 ″ N, 10 ° 57 ′ 7 ″ E	Thuringia	RFT cultural center »Lindeneck«	Erected in 1852 as a summer residence for Willibald Alexis , from 1893 Kurhaus, reopened in 1929 after renovation, taken over by RFT in 1954		VEB RFT communications electronics "Ernst Thälmann"		u. a. Meeting place of the district assembly of the Ilm district	Demolished in 2012, replaced by a new residential and office building.
Arnstadt 50 ° 49 ′ 48 ″ N, 10 ° 56 ′ 55 ″ E	Thuringia	Youth club (built as »Concordia« ), after 1990 Arnstadt youth center	1846				Renovations in 1934, 1976-1980, etc. a. Rehearsal room of the CHEMA children's entertainment ensemble Arnstadt (eV)	Demolished in 2019, replaced by a new residential and office building.
Aschersleben 51 ° 45 ′ 18 ″ N, 11 ° 27 ′ 33 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Bestehornhaus , Volkshaus	1908, 1938	u. a. Hans Heckner	built by the Bestehorn family, Stadt	large hall with 480 seats, small hall with 120 seats, lounges	Expansion in 1938, extensive renovation work since 1991, monument protection	In operation. Since 2005 home of the annual cabaret festival of the Federal Association of Cabaret
Aue 50 ° 35 ′ 14 "N, 12 ° 41 ′ 53" E	Saxony	"Ernst Thälmann" cultural center	1957-1958	Heinz Voigtmann	city	Theater hall with 784 seats, concert hall with approx. 200 seats, parquet, club rooms, very large vestibule, which was also used as a restaurant	rich decorative features preserved in their original state; used by the city; venue in GDR times; TV recordings of popular programs	In operation
Bad Berka 50 ° 53 ′ 25 ″ N, 11 ° 16 ′ 1 ″ E	Thuringia	Lung Sanatorium Clubhouse	1954-1958	Hanns Hopp , Richard Joachim	Lung Sanatorium Bad Berka, Ministry f. Health care of the GDR, Zentral-Klinik Bad Berka GmbH	large hall on the upper floor with 400 seats, parquet, restaurant on the ground floor	Original inventory of the initial equipment (lamps and hall stalls); Restaurant in operation; the ceramic pillar cladding in the guest room are works of art by the pottery group of former patients	monument
Bad Blankenburg 50 ° 41 ′ 2 ″ N, 11 ° 16 ′ 19 ″ E	Thuringia	City Hall	1930			Large hall with 1254 seats, small hall, multi-purpose room, club rooms, foyer	General renovation 1995-2002	In operation.
Bad Liebenstein 50 ° 48 ′ 59 ″ N, 10 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E	Thuringia	Culture house	1978-1981		city	Hall with 600 seats; Sauna, bowling alley, club and rehearsal rooms, ballet practice room		Closed in 2007, ruined, demolished in 2017
Bad Lobenstein 50 ° 26 ′ 59 ″ N, 11 ° 38 ′ 24 ″ E	Thuringia	Culture house	1952-1954	O. Meinel, R. Metzner	local community	Hall with approx. 600 seats; Parquet, club rooms, restaurant	Hall conversions (wood paneling) in the 1960s; at the back connected to the local park; Use by the community	In operation
Bad Schlema 50 ° 35 ′ 51 ″ N, 12 ° 40 ′ 29 ″ E	Saxony	Kulturhaus »Aktivist«						In operation, museum
Bandelin 53 ° 57 ′ 51 ″ N, 13 ° 22 ′ 52 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Culture house »Johannes R. Becher«	1953	Ernst-Max Jahn	Machine rental station Bandelin, municipality u. Support association	large hall with approx. 350 seats, parquet, club rooms, library, restaurant	Typical MAS culture house in a central village; Developed within the framework of the funding programs for agriculture; is kept alive by the association; especially leisure activities for young people; Restaurant in operation	Monument, ruinous
Berlin-Bohnsdorf	Berlin	Culture and People's House	1948	Kuhn	District Office	Hall with approx. 400 seats, catering	Built in 1948 in the garden city of Falkenberg through national donations through the sale of paper coupons, so-called building blocks, and with a cultural fund loan from the wooden elements of former forced laborers' barracks	Demolished in 1995. Successor: cultural kitchen on Dahmestrasse
Berlin-Friedrichshain 52 ° 31 ′ 2 ″ N, 13 ° 26 ′ 1 ″ E	Berlin	Culture house of the construction workers (from 1962 Kreiskulturhaus Friedrichshain)	opened on June 26, 1952					Demolished in 1967 in the course of the third construction phase of Karl-Marx-Allee .
Berlin-Karlshorst 52 ° 28 ′ 55 ″ N, 13 ° 31 ′ 30 ″ E	Berlin		1897, 2012					Built in 1897 as the king's ballroom , used by the Soviet Army from 1945–1966 , Lichtenberg district culture house from 1966–1990 , then Karlshorst culture house , demolished in 2011, rebuilt in a new form in 2012, in operation
Berlin-Lichtenberg 52 ° 31 ′ 37 ″ N, 13 ° 29 ′ 23 ″ E	Berlin	Culture house EKL	1949-1950		VEB Elektrokohle Lichtenberg , since 2003 Dong-Xuan GmbH	large hall with approx. 800 seats, parquet, club rooms, catering	early culture house of a SAG company; is used as a carpet market, small discotheque in the former foyer area	ruinous, renovation planned
Berlin-Marzahn 52 ° 32 ′ 49 ″ N, 13 ° 33 ′ 23 ″ E	Berlin	Culture and leisure forum	1988-1991	Collective Wolf-Rüdiger Eisentraut	Borough	large hall with approx. 450 seats, small hall, AG rooms, library, large foyer areas, sauna and swimming pool	constantly used; diverse leisure activities; largest event location in Marzahn	In operation
Berlin-Mitte 52 ° 31 ′ 3 ″ N, 13 ° 24 ′ 46 ″ E	Berlin	Originally Palais Podewils , Central Club of Youth and Athletes, House of Young Talents, Podewil	1701–1704, rebuilt in 1951, burned down in 1966, 1966–1970 extended reconstruction and renovation	Jean de Bodt et al. a.	State of Berlin	large hall with approx. 400 seats, parquet, small hall, sports hall, various club and circle rooms, café and restaurant, exhibition foyer; since 1976 as an independent institution HDJT	Organization and event location for the festival of political song , home of GDR jazz; international jazz concerts (since the late 1970s); Film club, ISKRA club, music club, theater club, circles for photography, graphics, plastic, dance, painting, drawing, handicrafts, fashion, textile design, artistry and equilibrium groups, guitar circles, cabaret, children and youth ensemble for music and movement, pioneer choir, small theater, pantomime studio. Closed June 1991, reopened on July 1, 1992 under the name »Podewil« ; still a jazz venue; Presentation of experimental art forms in music, dance, theater, visual arts and media art	In operation
Berlin-Mitte 52 ° 31 ′ 3 ″ N, 13 ° 24 ′ 8 ″ E	Berlin	Palace of the Republic 1976 around 1980 1986	1973-1979	Collective Heinz Graffunder , W.-R. Eisentraut, C. Schulz, M. Prasser, H. Aust; technical facilities: Klaus Wever	Federation	Steel skeleton constr. with a girder span of 80 meters; small Volkskammersaal; large hall for max. 5,000 pl .; various gastronomy. Facilities; large bowling alley	built as a replacement for the previously used sports and congress hall on Karl-Marx-Allee; Competitor to the West Berlin ICC ; takes up suggestions from the Center Pompidou and international comparison projects; multifunctional program as in the big people's houses at the turn of the century: political meetings, parliament, reading and club rooms, restaurants, ballroom, foyer as a glass »agora« with gallery, bowling center, youth club, theater installation; Outside stand barely used; 1989 scene of rallies; Meeting place of the first freely elected GDR parliament; Closed on September 1st, 1990 with the stipulation that asbestos removal is possible as soon as possible. 1996 Specialist initiative by political scientists, historians and architects from Germany, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands against the demolition	Demolished 2006–2008
Berlin-Niederschöneweide 52 ° 27 ′ 24 ″ N, 13 ° 30 ′ 53 ″ E	Berlin	VBMK cultural center, named after Ernst Schneller in 1957	1949-1950		VEB Berlin metalworks and semi-finished products		Mosaic murals by Ortraud Lerch in the dining room and in the staircase to the ballroom .	Demolished in 2018
Berlin-Oberschöneweide 52 ° 27 ′ 29 ″ N, 13 ° 31 ′ 40 ″ E	Berlin				VEB "Plant for Telecommunications"			Monument, conversion to 170 student apartments planned
Berlin-Spindlersfeld 52 ° 27 ′ 18 ″ N, 13 ° 33 ′ 33 ″ E	Berlin	Culture house »Erich Weinert«					1990–2001 Eurotower children's theater	ruinous, likely to be demolished
Berlin-Treptow 52 ° 29 ′ 42 ″ N, 13 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ E	Berlin	District culture house "House of German-Soviet Friendship" , "Parkhaus" , Kulturhaus Treptow	1894 (as a private villa)		after 1945 Russian headquarters, after 1960 the district, today the district office	Jazz cellar with 120 seats, theater with 50 seats, park garden with open-air stage with 500 seats, gallery, club rooms	Jazz cellar for 27 years; oldest jazz club in East Berlin; "Galerie Bildende Kunst" (by Longest F. Stein ) was an important place for young artists to experiment and present themselves during the GDR era; Film club »Gaff« ; Theater with in-house productions; Screen printing workshop, studios, workshop for the visual and performing arts; regional world music festival; Theater since 1990
Berlin-Weißensee 52 ° 33 ′ 3 ″ N, 13 ° 27 ′ 43 ″ E	Berlin	Culture House »Peter Edel«	around 1910, remodeling and expansion around 1963		District Office	large hall with approx. 400 seats, parquet, small hall with approx. 100 seats, exhibition rooms, various circle rooms	Off-theater; AGs for life drawing; Ceramic compass; Children's radio play studio; Recording studio; Dance, music and family events for children, young people, adults and seniors; Nationally known jazz club	Closed since 2009, renovation planned
Bischofswerda 51 ° 7 ′ 51 ″ N, 14 ° 11 ′ 12 ″ E	Saxony	Kulturhaus Bischofswerda			Acquired on July 1, 2006 by a private operating company.			In operation
Bitterfeld 51 ° 37 ′ 32 ″ N, 12 ° 18 ′ 7 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Kulturpalast »Wilhelm Pieck«	1952-1954	Theodor Simon, Alfred Dienst	SAG Elektrochemisches Kombinat Bitterfeld, City, Friends of the Kulturpalast	Theater hall with 1,000 seats, tier, small hall with 300 seats, parquet, restaurant, club rooms, large, approx. 70 m deep hall stage	before 1990 approx. 50 circles of all genres; Location of the Bitterfeld conferences ; largely preserved in its original condition; has great maintenance problems; 1994 Opening of the Parzival restaurant, maintenance attempts by the association founded by the city of Bitterfeld and the Bauhaus Dessau ; Part of the "Industrial Garden Realm" program at Expo 2000	Closed in 2015, in danger of being demolished
Bleicherode 51 ° 26 '32 "N, 11 ° 23' 32" O	Thuringia	Kulturhaus Glückauf , Bürgerhof				Forester wings, changing rooms, stage 8 × 10 m., Up to 500 pl.		In operation; Use as a restaurant
Böhlen 51 ° 12 ′ 28 ″ N, 12 ° 23 ′ 18 ″ E	Saxony	Culture Palace "Otto Grotewohl"	1949-1952	Fugmann	SAG Kombinat Böhlen, city	Theater hall with 985 seats, small. Hall with approx. 150 seats, club rooms, restaurant	erected at the instigation of SAG Topliwo for the workforce of three Böhlener companies; modern-looking hall architecture with wood-clad walls and tier; staggered wall u. Ceiling guide; indirect lighting	Refurbished after fire 2002–2008
Boizenburg 53 ° 22 ′ 31 ″ N, 10 ° 44 ′ 38 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Culture House "Kurt Bürger"	1951-1953	Franz Schiemer, Adolf Scheuer	city	large hall with approx. 400 seats, parquet, tier, club rooms and restaurant	The leaseholder converts the hall into a disco (status 1994)	Burned down in 2006
Brandenburg an der Havel 52 ° 25 ′ 27 ″ N, 12 ° 28 ′ 9 ″ E	Brandenburg	Regimental Culture House "Anton Saefkow"	1955					Monument, vacancy
Brieske 51 ° 30 ′ 22 ″ N, 13 ° 58 ′ 22 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house F. Mehring , Kaiserkrone	1913	Georg Heinsius von Mayenburg	Private	Foyer, cafeteria, hall with 180-320 people.	built as an inn of the garden city Marga , 1985 monument protection, shell renovation by 2000, reopening in 2012	In operation
Brüsewitz 53 ° 40 ′ 35 ″ N, 11 ° 14 ′ 48 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Culture house "The Free Farmer"	1951-1952	Franz Schiemer, Heinrich Handorf	MAS Brüsewitz, private	large hall with approx. 250 seats, parquet, club rooms, library, restaurant	Own project of a MAS in the form of moderately modern North German brick architecture with Dutch echoes ( Amsterdam School ); The restaurant and hall are used privately	monument
Buchenau 51 ° 4 ′ 23 ″ N, 10 ° 16 ′ 29 ″ E	Thuringia				Solvay plant (Buchenau)			Memorial, threatened with demolition in 2015
Chemnitz-Siegmar 50 ° 49 ′ 12 "N, 12 ° 49 ′ 44" E	Saxony	Miners' Palace of Culture	1949-1950	Kurt Ritter, Adam Bugner, Joachim Rackwitz (based on a Soviet type project)	SAG Wismut , now the MDR studio	large hall and various side rooms	the building is surrounded by extensive parkland	ruinous
Coschütz (Elsterberg) 50 ° 36 ′ 27 ″ N, 12 ° 11 ′ 20 ″ E	Saxony		1953-1955					In operation
Dessau 51 ° 50 ′ 3 ″ N, 12 ° 13 ′ 23 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house "Maxim Gorki"						Use as a senior residence
Dessau 51 ° 49 ′ 42 ″ N, 12 ° 13 ′ 54 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house of the VEB fermentation chemistry	1936	Kurt Elster				Monument, from 1995 open-plan disco Tiffany then BIG , burned down in 2001, ruinous
Dittrichshütte 50 ° 37 ′ 37 ″ N, 11 ° 15 ′ 33 ″ E	Thuringia
Domersleben 52 ° 5 ′ 39 ″ N, 11 ° 26 ′ 15 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house »Dr. JR cup "						In operation
Dresden 51 ° 3 ′ 4 ″ N, 13 ° 44 ′ 19 ″ E	Saxony	Kulturpalast (Dresden)	1966-1969	Leopold Wiel , Wolfgang Hänsch	city	Multifunctional ballroom with up to 2435 seats, studio theater with 192 seats, seminar, rehearsal and play rooms, foyer levels, office wings, restaurant with conference facilities	Wall picture made of colored glass by Gerhard Bondzin , main entrance doors in bronze cast by Gerd Jaeger	Monument since 2008, 2013–2017 conversion into a pure concert hall (approx. 1800 seats) as a venue for the Dresden Philharmonic
Dresden- Hellerau 51 ° 6 ′ 49 ″ N, 13 ° 45 ′ 11 ″ E	Saxony	Festspielhaus Hellerau of the Jaques-Dalcroze educational institution	1910-1912	Heinrich Tessenow	used by the support association for the European Workshop for Art and Culture Hellerau eV	large hall, skylight hall	once the center of a courtyard-like educational institution with residential and social buildings within the reform concept of the garden city of Hellerau; abandoned by founder during World War I as a protest against war; Attempts at resuscitation in the 20s; Police school and barracks during the Nazi era; after 1945 the house of the Red Army officers, part of the barracks; decayed like comparable facilities of the Soviet Army; Use of the hall as a sports hall; the Hellerau development association gives the house and the surrounding buildings a new perspective with art projects and events	Since April 2009 the Festspielhaus has been used all year round under the artistic direction of Dieter Jaenicke. Refurbished, monument
Dresden- Niedersedlitz 51 ° 0 ′ 14 ″ N, 13 ° 49 ′ 37 ″ E	Saxony	Culture house for the employees of the Sachsenwerk	1951-1952	Fritz August Franz			Until 1989 with theater and dance events, 1990 closure after privatization and renovation in the »Sachs« discotheque , 1995 damage by fire, since then ruinous	meanwhile demolished except for the listed foyer building, 2006 reopening of the "Portikus" as "House of the UEM"
Drugs 50 ° 53 ′ 52 ″ N, 12 ° 21 ′ 19 ″ E	Thuringia
Eberswalde 52 ° 49 ′ 48 ″ N, 13 ° 48 ′ 43 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house Schwärzetal opened as Arnold's Gartenetablissement	1864			Large hall (320 sqm): concerts, theater up to 418 seats, banquets up to 320 seats, restaurant and 3 conference rooms	Reopened in 1995 after 8 years of closure and renovation, in operation
Eisenhüttenstadt 52 ° 8 ′ 57 ″ N, 14 ° 37 ′ 51 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture House »Friedrich Wolf«	1955	Peter Schweizer, Hermann Enders and Hans Klein		477 seats in the stalls, 234 seats in the tier		Refurbished 2006–2010, in operation
Eisenhüttenstadt	Brandenburg	"Ernst Thälmann" cultural center	1954		VEB Hüttenzementwerk Ost
Erfurt	Thuringia	House of Culture (so-called "ship lift")						incomplete GDR building. demolished because it cannot be used as a theater. New theater replacement building in the Brühl district inaugurated in the 2003/04 season.
Erfurt, OT Moskauer Platz	Thuringia	Culture and Leisure Center (KuFZ)						tore off. In December 2019, the restored wall mosaic was inaugurated by the Wüstenrot Foundation.
Espenhain 51 ° 11 ′ 38 ″ N, 12 ° 27 ′ 44 ″ E	Saxony	Culture house »Clara Zetkin«	1951-1952	Fritz Gerhardt, Heinz Hemm, C. Müller	VEB Braunkohlenveredlung Kombinat Espenhain , private	large hall with approx. 350 seats, parquet, gastronomy	private user (furniture market) 1994; Burned down in 1995	Demolished in 1997
Finsterwalde 51 ° 38 ′ 11 "N, 13 ° 42 ′ 25" E	Brandenburg	Hotel Viktoria, «House of Friendship»	1876, 1899 1924, 1936		Private (2009)	Hall with up to 700 people	Reconstruction after fire in 1924, hall with 2500 seats in 1936, since 1952 HdF, jazz concerts with Manfred Krug , Uschi Brüning and Miriam Makeba	Long-term renovation plans, ruinous (2011), burned down in September 2017, large parts are planned to be demolished in 2018
Forst (Lausitz) 51 ° 44 ′ 49 ″ N, 14 ° 39 ′ 21 ″ E	Brandenburg	Protect house in 1954 for "House of Culture of Textile Workers' rededicated	around 1850, 1971–1978 renovation			Room about 350 seats, 110 seats in the restaurant and in the weaver's room		Demolished in 2006
Forst (Lausitz) 51 ° 44 ′ 33 ″ N, 14 ° 38 ′ 48 ″ E	Brandenburg	House of Cloth Makers, House of Culture of German-Soviet Friendship, Citizens' Center for Art & Culture	1864, 1918-1930	Alfred Weichel				Music school, restaurant
Frankfurt (Oder) 52 ° 21 ′ 18 ″ N, 14 ° 30 ′ 10 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture House "Friendship of Nations"	1952-1954	Kurt Brenneisen	German Reichsbahn	Dining room for 300 people. Kitchen capacity for 600 people, restaurant, model railroad layout		Monument since 1987, ruinous
Friedrichshain (Felixsee) 51 ° 36 ′ 14 ″ N, 14 ° 34 ′ 20 ″ E	Brandenburg	Cultural center of the glass workers' community, culture island	1953			Usable area: 1,078 m²	Partial renovation in 1999 of large and small halls as well as kitchens and toilets, former guest rooms in need of renovation	for sale since 2012
Frose 51 ° 47 ′ 39 "N, 11 ° 22 ′ 32" E	Saxony-Anhalt	Frose cultural center			furnished in the hall of the former “Fürst Leopold” hotel, city	large hall with 400–500 seats, lounges	Vacancy	Demolished in February 2018
Gangloffsommern 51 ° 11 ′ 23 "N, 10 ° 56 ′ 18" E	Thuringia				MAS Gangloffsommern			2010 conversion to the village community center, use a. a. as a kindergarten
Geisa 50 ° 42 ′ 58 ″ N, 9 ° 57 ′ 14 ″ E	Thuringia	Geisa cultural center	1953-1954			large hall 460–550 seats with stage, rooms for club work and smaller events		In operation
Gera 50 ° 52 ′ 39 ″ N, 12 ° 4 ′ 52 ″ E	Thuringia	"House of Culture" , Gera culture and congress center	1977-1981	L. Bortenreuter, K-Günther, G. Gerhardt	city	large multi-purpose hall with 1683 seats, club with 160 seats, 6 catering. Facilities with 380 seats, bowling	three-dimensional, sculptural relief wall in the foyer area (subject: "German songs from minnesang to workers song" ); Works by 27 artists a. a. Karl-Heinz Appell , Volker Beier , Marguerite Blume-Cárdenas , Wolfgang Friedrich , Claus-Lutz Gaedicke , Michael Göttsche , Ingeborg Hunzinger , Jo Jastram	In operation. Gradual modernization since 2006, u. a. new lighting system light rain from product design students from the Bauhaus University Weimar developed
Gera 50 ° 52 ′ 37 ″ N, 12 ° 5 ′ 2 ″ E	Thuringia	"House of Friendship"	1952					Refurbished, no cultural activity
Gotha 50 ° 57 ′ 20 ″ N, 10 ° 41 ′ 38 ″ E	Thuringia	District culture house "Johannes R. Becher" (culture house "house of unity" ) town hall	1823-1824		city	large hall with gallery with approx. 600 seats; Restaurant, organ.	Classifying gallery hall, important meeting place of the social democracy ( Gothaer party congress ) was the Tivoli.	In operation
Graal-Müritz 54 ° 14 ′ 49 ″ N, 12 ° 13 ′ 54 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania				"Richard Assmann" sanatorium
Greifswald 54 ° 5 ′ 46 ″ N, 13 ° 22 ′ 13 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Culture house of the railway workers						today houses the Greifswald District Court
Großbreitenbach 50 ° 34 ′ 50 ″ N, 11 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ E	Thuringia	Schützenhof, culture house of the glassworkers	1860		city		erected as a replacement for the previous building that had burned down in the style of historicism. Renovations around 1973, around 1990. Last used in 1999 by the carnival association, monument protection	Demolished in 2016
Groß Grabow 53 ° 42 ′ 0 ″ N, 12 ° 16 ′ 8 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	House by the pond	1956		Private		After the fall of the Wall, there was a short inn and guesthouse, then a long period of vacancy	Refurbished 2011–2014, used as a guest house.
Großenhain 51 ° 17 ′ 38 ″ N, 13 ° 31 ′ 36 ″ E	Saxony	Culture house "Maxim Gorki"	1952-1957		City, tenant	large hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, tier, spacious foyer area, gastronomy	in the upper area largely original equipment; original lamps from the 50s; Lively business through live music events by the tenant	Until 1850 Vorwerk, then Gasthof Goldene Krone, converted in 1952 for theater, dance, concerts and festivals. Later used as a district culture house. From 1968 Maxim Gorki, Leitkulturhaus. 1989–2001 Kulturhaus Krone, today a Christian parish hall.
Großhennersdorf 50 ° 59 ′ 39 ″ N, 14 ° 47 ′ 26 ″ E	Saxony							Runs sporadically, Crazy Kulti disco-café
Güstrow 53 ° 47 ′ 1 ″ N, 12 ° 10 ′ 38 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Cultural building of the PH »Lieselotte Hermann« , today a technical college for public administration, police and justice	1957	Hans Hermann Schreiber	Ministry of Education of the GDR, state property of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Hall with approx. 400 seats, parquet, tier	Relief on the south side by Jo Jastram
Halberstadt 51 ° 53 ′ 23 "N, 11 ° 2 ′ 54" E	Saxony-Anhalt	District culture house "Clubhouse of the working people"	1978					1995 Sale to a private investor, ruinous, in danger of being demolished
Harbke 52 ° 11 '22 "N, 11 ° 2' 40" E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house of the power plant	1953-1954	Gustav Hartwig	Harbke power plant , community, private	Large hall with approx. 500 seats. Parquet, small hall, spacious foyer area, club rooms, guest rooms, restaurant, bowling alley	Part of the entrance area (vestibule) used by a bench; Restaurant in operation; largely original interior	after 1996 sold to a Helmstedt hotelier; Until 2012 Harbker "Schlosshotel", since then property of the housing association again. In operation. monument
Heiligenstadt 51 ° 22 ′ 24 ″ N, 10 ° 8 ′ 12 ″ E	Thuringia	District Culture House Dr. Theodor Neubauer , Eichsfelder Kulturhaus	1960-1964	VEB high-rise project planning Erfurt ( Franz Ollertz , after his escape from the republic Gerd Widder and Heinz Fienold)	Eichsfelder Kulturbetriebe (owned by the district)	Parquet 516 seats, rank 70 seats	Excellent culture house of the GDR , as a striking example of modern architecture of the 1960s under monument protection since 1980. In 1993 the theater, technology and sanitary areas were extensively renovated, in 1996 the glass facade was renewed and the foyer redesigned.	In operation
Hennigsdorf 52 ° 37 ′ 43 ″ N, 13 ° 12 ′ 15 ″ E	Brandenburg	Clubhouse "Hans Beimler" , city clubhouse	1952	Alfred Malpricht	Locomotive construction Electrotechnical works Hans Beimler Hennigsdorf (LEW), city	large hall with ea. 2 ballet hall, music room, library, club rooms 183	One of the two original corporate culture houses in the city has largely been preserved in its original furnishings; diverse use by the city	In operation
Heringsdorf 53 ° 57 ′ 25 ″ N, 14 ° 10 ′ 5 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Culture house	1948-1949	Rudolf Adolf Schwanz	Soviet Army (until 1950), municipality	Theater hall with 750 seats, gallery, music salon, club rooms, restaurant	The building was commissioned by the Soviet Army on the site of the former Heringsdorf beach casino (burned down in 1946) and served as part of a sanatorium for officers wounded in the war until 1950; the gable relief was made by a Greifswald artist; the z. T. elaborate and decorative lamps were made by a Bansin company; the house lay fallow for several years and has been renovated since 1995; Planned as an event location as part of a casino	1999–2014 used as a casino
Hirschberg 50 ° 24 ′ 13 ″ N, 11 ° 49 ′ 4 ″ E	Thuringia	House of culture of the Hirschberg leather factory	1948-1949	Hans Grotewohl and other students under the guidance of Hermann Henselmann ; Executing architects: Karl Kickebusch, Walter Stamm	VEB leather factory, city	large hall with 708 seats, tier, skylight foyer, club rooms, catering	was in decline; without hall seating; is being renovated by the city (new heating system); Use concept for private disco; Conversion of the hall into divided seating groups (status 1994)	In operation
Hoyerswerda	Saxony	Culture and sports hall "Alfred Scholz"	around 1960		City, private	large hall with 1,500 seats. Parquet, club rooms, catering	Type construction in mast construction; For a long time the only major event location in the planned town of Hoyerswerda; Of action Brigitte Reimann ; lies fallow as a ruin	Use as a gym
Hoyerswerda 51 ° 26 ′ 15 ″ N, 14 ° 15 ′ 46 ″ E	Saxony	House of the mountain and energy workers , Lausitzhalle Hoyerswerda	1977-1985	Jens Ebert collective, ( GDR Architecture Prize 1985)	Black Pump Gas Combine , City	large hall with 820 seats, atrium, foyer, gastronomy		In operation
Ilmenau 50 ° 40 ′ 55 "N, 10 ° 54 ′ 11" E	Thuringia	Festival hall Ilmenau	1937-1938	Ernst Flemming	city	Hall with approx. 950 seats, tier with 326 seats, club rooms, restaurant	National Socialist Representative Building. Extensively renovated in 1949, 1973 and 1985. Connecting building between the festival hall and park restaurants destroyed by fire in 1994, renovation work completed in 1995.	Still used today; important venue in the city
Jena 50 ° 55 ′ 38 "N, 11 ° 34 ′ 47" E	Thuringia	Volkshaus Jena	1903	A. Rossbach	Carl Zeiss Foundation	large hall with approx. 800 seats, parquet, gallery tier, small hall with approx. 100 seats, gastronomy with 350 seats, Schaffersaal with 100 seats, large foyer area	since 1934 seat of the Jena Philharmonic ; political and social Venue (including 1905 SPD party congress); Place of popular education; in the skylight hall of the Volkshaus famous exhibitions of the Jena Art Association (including Edvard Munch , Ernst Ludwig Kirchner , Ferdinand Hodler , Theo van Doesburg ); ErnstAbbe Library; leased to the city since 1991; since 1993 seat of the Jena Philharmonic; Use: congresses, concerts, etc. a.	In operation
Johanngeorgenstadt 50 ° 26 ′ 34 ″ N, 12 ° 41 ′ 38 ″ E (presumed location)	Saxony	Kulturhaus Johanngeorgenstadt, Kulturhaus "Karl Marx"	1956		SAG bismuth , city	large theater hall with approx. 700 seats, club rooms, restaurants, various circles	Designed as part of a residential area as part of the Wismut special construction program; the free community of voters in the city fights for the existence of the house; 1994 not used, but provisionally protected from deterioration by the former manager and residents; small video library	After the slate roof was completely renewed at considerable expense, the building was demolished in 2010.
Calf (mildness) 52 ° 39 ′ 29 "N, 11 ° 23 ′ 32" E	Saxony-Anhalt	Kulturhaus Kalbe, since 1963 Kreiskulturhaus	1954-1958, around 1975		city	Ground floor: foyer, large theater and cinema hall for 400 people; Upper floor: small theater hall with 80 seats, extension with 700sqm up to 600 seats open-air stage	since 2008 renovations as part of the Leader program	In operation
Kienitz	Brandenburg	House of Culture of the MAS	1949
Knappenrode 51 ° 24 ′ 9 ″ N, 14 ° 19 ′ 28 ″ E	Saxony	»Eintracht« factory inn , Knappenrode cultural center	1915		VEB BKW "Glückauf"		Built in 1915 as a company inn for the "Eintracht" mining company. 1951 Extension of the large hall. The entertainment rights introduced in 1977 ensured regular and well-attended concerts and theater visits. Sales intentions failed as early as the 1990s.	Monument, threatened again with demolition after the end of use in 2009
Königsborn	Saxony-Anhalt
Köthen 51 ° 45 ′ 3 ″ N, 11 ° 58 ′ 24 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Concerthaus, clubhouse of the working people						tore off
Kringelsdorf 51 ° 23 ′ 6 ″ N, 14 ° 36 ′ 49 ″ E	Saxony							Monument, privately used as an inn
Kruge-Gersdorf 52 ° 45 '12 "N, 13 ° 52' 39" E	Brandenburg	Culture house	1952-1953	Wilhelm Flemming, Fritz Lehmann	MAS Kruge-Gersdorf, municipality	large hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, club rooms, library, catering	MAS culture house in a model village of collectivized agriculture; property of the municipality again after being used by private entrepreneurs in the meantime	Monument, threatened with closure, currently collecting donations to implement the fire protection concept
Krumpa 51 ° 17 ′ 38 ″ N, 11 ° 51 ′ 15 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt		1951-1952		Lützkendorf mineral oil plant			Monument protection, ruinous
Küstrin-Kietz 52 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ N, 14 ° 36 ′ 28 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house of the railway workers	around 1954			large hall with approx. 350 seats, parquet, club rooms, restaurant	served the station staff as a cultural and social building (food supply); Maintenance problems; Devastated in 1995	Renovated between 1997 and 2000, used as a cultural center, sales plans
Leaf bush 51 ° 28 ′ 20 ″ N, 14 ° 8 ′ 16 ″ E	Saxony				Ilse Bergbau AG			endangered by the decline of the Erika colony; currently precarious use by the Heimatverein
Lebus 52 ° 25 ′ 38 "N, 14 ° 31 ′ 57" E	Brandenburg							In operation, monument
Leinefelde 51 ° 23 ′ 3 ″ N, 10 ° 19 ′ 43 ″ E	Thuringia	Multipurpose hall of the supply center, Obereichsfeldhalle	1972-1974	E. Reibnagel, G. Hoberg		Hall with approx. 800 seats, parquet, gallery with approx. 300 seats, restaurant with 460 seats.	Multipurpose building: 60% sport, 40% culture and various	1998–2000 modernization of the foyer, in operation
Letschin 52 ° 38 ′ 40 "N, 14 ° 21 ′ 35" E	Brandenburg	»Theater of Peace« , »Haus Lichtblick«	1950, 1960 conversion to a cinema for widescreen films		Community, association			last cinema event in 1991, shell refurbishment in 1994, after the reopening on January 29, 2000 the association "Altes Kino eV" took over the re-commissioning of the cinema technology.
Leuna 51 ° 19 ′ 21 ″ N, 12 ° 0 ′ 59 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture House of the Working People "Walter Ulbricht"	1927–1928, 1946–1948 reconstruction, 1956 completion of the stage house	Neumann, Rammler (reconstruction)	Sponsor: VEB Leuna-Werke “Walter Ulbricht” , LVG Leuna-Vermögensverwaltung GmbH	large hall with approx. 800 seats, parquet, small hall, ballet hall, club rooms, library, restaurant	one of the earliest culture houses established by the Soviet military administration; currently extensive renovation	In operation, monument
Löhma 50 ° 35 '30 "N, 11 ° 27' 35" E	Thuringia							The property has been vacant for over 20 years and is owned by the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft (LEG) Thuringia.
Lübbenau 51 ° 28 ′ 20 ″ N, 14 ° 8 ′ 16 ″ E	Brandenburg	Schützenhaus, cultural center for railway workers, cultural center "New Life"	1850		Deutsche Reichsbahn, private		Used as emergency accommodation for refugee families until 1954, then handed over to the Deutsche Reichsbahn and from 1956 used as a cultural center for railway workers	Closed in 1996, private in 2003, subject to a change lock under building law. No current building permits
Ludwigsfelde 52 ° 18 ′ 6 ″ N, 13 ° 15 ′ 36 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house "Arthur Ladwig"	1956-1959	Erich Wachlin	Automobilwerke Ludwigsfelde , city	large hall with approx. 650 seats, parquet, tier, club rooms, restaurant	Original equipment available; is used by the city
Lutherstadt Wittenberg 51 ° 51 ′ 58 ″ N, 12 ° 39 ′ 14 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt		around 1890, 1957					Opened around 1890 as Gasthof Zur Reichspost (Muths Festsäle), in 1952 the house of the workers , later the Maxim Gorki district culture house , culture and conference center (KTC) , demolished in 2016
Magdeburg 52 ° 6 ′ 51 ″ N, 11 ° 37 ′ 40 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house "AMO" , AMO culture and congress house	1950-1951	Pohl and team	Heavy engineering combine "Ernst Thälmann" (SKET), city	large hall with at least 1000 seats, parquet, small ballet and music hall, club rooms, restaurant	important event location for Magdeburg with diverse cultural and leisure activities; intensively used commercially and for urban culture	In operation, monument
Meiningen 50 ° 34 ′ 20 ″ N, 10 ° 25 ′ 21 ″ E	Thuringia	Culture house of the railway workers	before 1955		RAW Meiningen private	Hall, restaurant, bowling alley		closes at the end of 2016
Meiningen 50 ° 34 ′ 19 ″ N, 10 ° 24 ′ 55 ″ E	Thuringia	Struppsche Villa , Artur Becker District Culture House	1909	Karl Behlert	Meiningen community of heirs	Hall and numerous representative rooms, parquet, wall paneling, marble staircase	Monument, evacuation of the house due to repatriation claims by a widespread community of heirs	Monument, 2014 establishment of a foundation for the implementation of the upcoming building renovation, from 2017/18 use by the Max Reger Meiningen music school.
Marker 50 ° 49 ′ 27 ″ N, 10 ° 7 ′ 27 ″ O	Thuringia	Kulturhaus, Werra-Rhön-Halle	1952-1954	Eichwald	Potash plant »Werra« -FDGB, community	Hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, restaurant, club rooms	one of three cultural centers in the largest potash district in the GDR; is used by the community; Restaurant leased to private owners	It is planned to demolish a supermarket at the end of 2015
Mestlin 53 ° 34 ′ 47 "N, 11 ° 55 ′ 35" E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Mestlin cultural center	1952-1957	Erich Bentrup , Günter Kawan	MTS Mestlin, private	large hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, club rooms, small hall, restaurant, library	in the course of an ideal planning of a central location as part of an almost urban square in the village center; was regarded as a model village in the sense of overcoming the city-rural antagonism; Conversion of the hall into a disco, restaurant closed; could never be used and supported by the community alone; For large events, audiences from more distant communities were brought in by bus	Monument, since 2008 supervised by "Denkmal Kultur Mestlin eV"
Mittelpöllnitz 50 ° 45 ′ 20 ″ N, 11 ° 54 ′ 40 ″ E	Thuringia							In operation
Mulhouse	Thuringia	Culture and sports facility "Am Schwanenteich" , cultural site "Schwanenteich"	1898, 1967 reconstruction a. modification		city	Hall with 665 seats, parquet, gallery with 146 seats, café, restaurant, open terrace	typical renovation in the style of the 60s; Sports, concert, theater and film events	In operation
Munzig 51 ° 5 ′ 29 ″ N, 13 ° 24 ′ 49 ″ E	Saxony	Triebischtal cultural center	1960				Culture house of VEB Pappenfabrik Munzig, largely preserved in its original condition, privatized in 1995	Closed in 2015
Murchin	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	District Culture House Murchin under construction Cultural Center of the MAS "Matyas Rakosi" , "HyperDome" -Diskothek	1952-1954	Gräning, Golzow, Schewe	MAS Murchin, private operator	large hall with approx. 450 seats, parquet, club restaurant, lecture hall, club rooms, library	a gift from the GDR Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to MAS Murchin as an award in the nationwide competition for the best machine rental station; decorative painting of the former club restaurant with wall and ceiling frescoes (by Herbert Wegehaupt , Otto Manigk , Manfred Kandt ), which deal with the topic of German-Hungarian friendship; Relief on the left wing of the house front by Walter Bullert ; Conversion to a large discotheque, next to various club and music rooms	Monument, ruinous, auctioned on June 6, 2020 for € 76,000
Nachterstedt 51 ° 48 ′ 2 ″ N, 11 ° 20 ′ 6 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Nachterstedt cultural center	~ 1951		city	Multi-purpose hall with stage and 700 seats and another smaller hall, cinema projectors available. A hotel is attached to the cultural center.	Erected as a cultural center for the VEB Braunkohlenwerk Nachterstedt.	2008-2010 renovation and transformation into a village community center. Cultural monument.
Neubrandenburg 53 ° 33 ′ 29 "N, 13 ° 15 ′ 37" E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	House of Culture and Education	1963-1965	Iris reason	city	Multi-purpose hall with stage, 600 seats, the number was later reduced to 450, venue of the Neubrandenburg Philharmonic and the Neustrelitz State Theater. The regional library in Neubrandenburg is located in the eastern wing .		Conversion to a media and administration center by 2014
Neuhaus am Rennweg	Thuringia	Culture house	1950–1953, 1968–1974 extension of the restaurant and library	Herbert Fleischhauer; Gustav Schmidt (extension)	city	large hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, gallery, club rooms, restaurant, library	is used by the city
Neuruppin 52 ° 55 ′ 45 "N, 12 ° 48 ′ 41" E	Brandenburg	Kulturhaus »Stadtgarten«	1897, remodeled 1967–1969		city	Hall with approx. 650 seats, parquet, tier with 200 seats, club rooms, restaurant	typical renovation of the 1960s; Dance groups, film and photo circles, recording studio; diverse entertainment offers and sales fairs
Nienburg (Saale) 51 ° 50 ′ 44 ″ N, 11 ° 45 ′ 53 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Clubhouse "Maxim Gorki"					Formerly the warehouse of the Römer chemical factory . Towards the end of the Second World War, production site for the Junkers aircraft factories of the armaments industry relocated from Dessau, hence the Zeppelin hall . In the early 1950s it was converted into a cultural center.	In operation
Obhausen 51 ° 23 '24 "N, 11 ° 39' 14" E	Saxony-Anhalt		1955		MTS Wilhelm Pieck
Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. 50 ° 43 ′ 19 ″ N, 12 ° 42 ′ 1 ″ E	Saxony	Culture house "Hans Marchwitza"	1955-1956	Martin Decker	city	Large hall max. 750 seats, bar, club rooms, bowling alley	Testimony to the GDR cultural and social policy, in the style of the national building tradition, high-quality handicrafts, etc. a. Bear sculpture by Max Stark, wall work in the bowling alley by Rudolf Kraus, stone reliefs typical of mining above the main entrance by Hanns Diettrich , plaster inlay in the bar by Gerhard Klampäckel	In operation, monument,
Oelsnitz / Vogtl. 50 ° 25 ′ 16 ″ N, 12 ° 10 ′ 11 ″ E	Saxony							2012 Magic discotheque
Parchim 53 ° 25 ′ 27 "N, 11 ° 50 ′ 49" E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	City Hall	after 1984		city	Hall with approx. 400 seats, small hall, club rooms, catering	remarkable visual artistic design in the foyer; is still used
Pfiffelbach 51 ° 3 ′ 46 ″ N, 11 ° 26 ′ 30 ″ E	Thuringia	Culture house, congress center	1989	LPG Pfiffelbach	local community	large hall with max. 750 seats, parquet, club room, large and small restaurant, guest rooms		In operation, hotel
Plauen 50 ° 29 ′ 45 ″ N, 12 ° 9 ′ 16 ″ E	Saxony	Festival hall	Inaugurated in 1989		city	large hall, restaurant, club rooms	largest event location in Plauen; built on the site of the old town hall; TV recording location	In operation
Plessa 51 ° 27 ′ 49 ″ N, 13 ° 37 ′ 10 ″ E	Brandenburg	Plessa cultural center	1956-1958	Erich Graf	VEB power plant Plessa, municipality	large hall with approx. 450 seats, parquet, small hall, club rooms, restaurant	developed on the basis of a compact type variant; largely preserved in the original collection; Monument since 1985, used by the community	Demolition in 2009 prevented, renovation and operation by a citizens' association
Premnitz location	Brandenburg
Pritzwalk 53 ° 9 ′ 11 ″ N, 12 ° 10 ′ 20 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house »Erich Weinert«	1959	Acquired in 2002 by the Pritzwalk housing association				2003 foyer and large hall redesigned; A modern cinema with 102 seats was set up on the first floor. In 2004 a small hall was added. In operation
Profen 51 ° 7 ′ 42 ″ N, 12 ° 15 ′ 57 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt				MIBRAG		Entrance portal with reliefs on the history of civil engineering	Completely renovated in 2004 and redesigned as an administration building. Use by the technical planning and environmental protection department at MIBRAG
Radeberg 51 ° 6 ′ 53 ″ N, 13 ° 55 ′ 1 ″ E	Saxony	Culture house "Maxim Gorki"			Sachsenwerk , later Rafena and Robotron			tore off
Rathenow 52 ° 36 '23 "N, 12 ° 20' 33" E	Brandenburg	Culture house "Johannes R. Becher" , district culture house	1956-1958	Martin Buchsteiner, Wilfried Brennecke	city	Theater hall with 794 seats, small hall with 200 seats, club rooms	developed according to the type model of the Deutsche Bauakademie; used by the city	In operation
Reppist 51 ° 32 '20 "N, 14 ° 1' 26" E	Brandenburg							Monument, private property of a local craftsman, is to be revitalized
Rositz 51 ° 0 ′ 42 "N, 12 ° 22 ′ 44" E	Thuringia	Culture House "Friendship of Nations"	1952					today municipal administration
Rostock	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Clubhouse Neptune Shipyard	1951		Neptune shipyard			2001 fire, demolished in 2011
Rüdersdorf 52 ° 28 '16 "N, 13 ° 46' 39" E	Brandenburg	Culture house "Martin Andersen Nexö"	1954-1956	Emil Leibold	VEB Zementwerke Rüdersdorf, city	large hall with approx. 550 seats, parquet, small hall with approx. 120 seats, club rooms, library, catering possible in the large vestibule	in the master workshop I of the German Bauakademie designed under the direction of H. Henselmann; classifying culture house in white Rüdersdorfer cement; important event location for the city and the surrounding area; largely in original condition; rich collection of evidence of the history of the house	In operation, monument
Ruhla 50 ° 53 ′ 57 ″ N, 10 ° 21 ′ 53 ″ E	Thuringia	Culture house "Klement Gottwald"	1949-1951	Hermann wheels	SAG Uhrenwerk Ruhla, Uhrenwerke Ruhla , City	Hall with approx. 300 seats, parquet, library, restaurant	Created on the instructions of SAG Uhren- und Maschinenfabrik Ruhla; continued to be used by the city	In operation
Saalfeld		Meininger Hof
Schkopau 51 ° 23 ′ 46 "N, 11 ° 58 ′ 33" E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house " House of Friendship " of the Buna Werke	1952-1958	Hauser, Reinhardt	VEB Chemical Works Buna	large theater hall with 748 seats, concert hall with approx. 250 seats, ballet hall, club rooms, large restaurant	interesting, decorative interior fittings preserved in the original; Remarkable hall in simple architecture with idiosyncratic neon chandeliers and excellent acoustics	Opening place of the 1st Workers' Festival of the GDR . Closed at the end of 1998, under monument protection, ruinous
Schönebeck (Elbe) 52 ° 1 ′ 25 ″ N, 11 ° 42 ′ 27 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt				Anhaltinische chemical factory			under monument conservation
Schwaan 53 ° 56 ′ 25 ″ N, 12 ° 5 ′ 41 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania							Use as a bowling alley
Schwarza 50 ° 41 ′ 29 ″ N, 11 ° 19 ′ 30 ″ E	Thuringia				VEB Chemiefaserkombinat Schwarza "Wilhelm Pieck"		1993 Discotheque "Miami-Park"	Demolished in 2014 and replaced by a supermarket
Schwarzheide 51 ° 28 ′ 47 ″ N, 13 ° 52 ′ 45 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house »Erich Weinert«			VEB Synthesewerk Schwarzheide, BASF Schwarzheide			In operation
Schwedt / Oder 53 ° 3 ′ 22 ″ N, 14 ° 17 ′ 33 ″ E	Brandenburg		1978			large hall 800 seats, small hall with over 100 seats, for theater, concert and film events, rooms and studios for the city's folk art circles		Used by the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt
Seelow 52 ° 31 ′ 58 ″ N, 14 ° 23 ′ 5 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house »Erich Weinert«	1954-1957	Hans-Jürgen Kluge	city	large hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, small hall with approx. 180 seats, various club rooms	according to type models of Dt. Bauakademie designed, classifying house of culture; Bronze sculpture on the forecourt by Walter Kreisel; Erich Weinert bust by Herbert Burschik ; Original equipment largely preserved; Monument protection since 1982. Use by the city	In operation
Spremberg	Brandenburg	Artur Becker cultural center	1936, 1950–1965 Brigitta mine training workshop, 1970/71 renovation		Trattendorf power plant	swimming pool		demolished around 2000
Steinfurth 53 ° 58 '24 "N, 13 ° 38' 38" E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania							monument
Suhl 50 ° 36 ′ 32 ″ N, 10 ° 41 ′ 20 ″ E	Thuringia	Culture House »7. October « , House Philharmonic	1955-1957	Hermann wheels	city	Theater with 690 seats, cinema room with 407 seats, large vestibule, club rooms, café	used by the city	2010 Partial demolition, conversion as association house a. a. by the South Thuringia Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Tangerhütte 52 ° 25 ′ 51 ″ N, 11 ° 47 ′ 36 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Culture house	1932, 1957 youth club, 1977 re-u. Expansion, 1986 stage building		city	large hall with approx. 500 seats, parquet, club rooms, restaurant	typical renovation of an older rifle house in the style of the 1960s; Functional building in the 1970s possibly added according to type series; hall shaped as a barrel vault; diverse use by the city	Closing foreseeable
Torgau 51 ° 33 ′ 40 ″ N, 13 ° 0 ′ 14 ″ E	Saxony	Schützenhaus, HO House of Working People	1811, 1902 large hall		City, Torgau Culture Association	Large hall with stage and Blüthner concert grand piano (420 seats), small hall (80 seats), foyer		Monument, in operation
Trebus 52 ° 24 ′ 6 ″ N, 14 ° 2 ′ 25 ″ E	Brandenburg	Culture house "House of Peace" , Restaurant "Seeblick"	1951		MAS Trebus, municipality (leasehold contract)		early, moderately modern, village culture house; is currently being renovated	used as a restaurant
Tröbitz 51 ° 35 ′ 50 ″ N, 13 ° 26 ′ 3 ″ E	Brandenburg			Agricultural machinery construction Tröbitz				commercial use
Unterwellenborn 50 ° 39 ′ 45 "N, 11 ° 26 ′ 37" E	Thuringia		1952-1955	Hanns Hopp , Josef Kaiser , Thomas Reimer; Park: Vladimir Rubinov	VEB Maxhütte Unterwellenbom, community, private	large theater hall with approx. 800 seats, music salon with approx. 200 seats, ballet hall, cellar restaurant, café-restaurant with approx. 200 seats, large seminar room, library, club and play rooms, foyer	rich equipment; extensive stairwells; originally planned for a cultural and sports park, only carried out on a reduced basis; More than 50 different lights and chandeliers came from Leipzig, Chemnitz and Ebersbach companies (standard model and individual production); Gable relief on the portal and mosaics on the cartouches between the columns (representation of the muses); the house was given to a private user; Refurbishment in progress	In operation, monument
Vetschau 51 ° 47 ′ 2 "N, 14 ° 4 ′ 40" E	Brandenburg						Discos »Crazy« , »Sunrise«	Demolition and redevelopment with a shopping center for 2017 in progress
Wernigerode 51 ° 50 ′ 13 ″ N, 10 ° 47 ′ 2 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt		1912				Erected as a box house for the Freemasons, after 1949 a cultural center, named after Palmiro Togliatti from 1965 .	monument
Wernigerode 51 ° 50 ′ 11 ″ N, 10 ° 47 ′ 8 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt		1976-1979				New building as a spiritual and cultural center with a never completed hall extension, clad in orange	Completely demolished in 1993 for a new hotel with a congress center
Weimar	Thuringia	Weimarhalle (1952-1974 as "House of Officers")	1931-1932					Completely demolished in 1997. 1999 Inauguration of the new building as the »congress center neue weimarhalle«
Whitewater 51 ° 30 ′ 11 "N, 14 ° 38 ′ 32" E	Saxony	Volkshaus, culture house for chemical workers	1928	Long	General German Trade Union Federation , city			Brand 2006, since 2013 the association "THINK WITH LIFE", Förderverein Volkshaus Weißwasser eV, monument
Wismar 53 ° 53 ′ 47 "N, 11 ° 28 ′ 38" E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania							monument
Wittenberge 52 ° 59 ′ 46 ″ N, 11 ° 45 ′ 16 ″ E	Brandenburg		1955 laying of the foundation stone, 1958 fire on the advanced shell, 1959 opening		city	Large hall (625-661 seats), plenary hall (128-224 seats), small hall (88 seats), foyer	1994 monument	1997–1999 extensive renovation, in operation
Wolfen 51 ° 39 ′ 31 ″ N, 12 ° 15 ′ 57 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Clubhouse of the trade unions "Sella Hasse" , theater of the working people Wolfen	Original building in 1927, reconstruction and expansion in 1950		Filmfabrik Wolfen , city	large theater hall (with gallery) with 900 seats, small hall with approx. 200 seats, parquet, large works canteen, spacious foyer, restaurant, club rooms	Set up in an old building at the instigation of the Soviet Military Administration ( SMAD ); Interior largely preserved in its original condition; used by the city	In operation
Zehdenick 52 ° 58 ′ 55 ″ N, 13 ° 20 ′ 4 ″ E	Brandenburg	"Stadtgarten" dance restaurant	Originally built in 1912, alterations around 1968		City, private	Hall with approx. 300 seats, parquet, tier, catering	typical modification of the 1960s; unusual remodeling of the hall with wood paneling, elaborate decor, remarkable lighting; on lease with a varied program of events	In operation
Zeitz 51 ° 4 ′ 19 ″ N, 12 ° 11 ′ 34 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	“Marx-Engels” cultural center , Hyzet clubhouse	1949-1951	W. Müller, Metz	SAG hydrogenation plant Zeitz, city	large hall with approx. 1000 seats, parquet, tier, small hall, club and play rooms	Well-preserved inventory, used by the city and factory	In operation
Zinnowitz 54 ° 4 ′ 46 ″ N, 13 ° 54 ′ 37 ″ E	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Zinnowitz cultural center	1953-1957	Walter Litzkow, G. Ulbricht, Günter Möhring, K. Hämmerling	SAG bismuth , community, z. Currently none	large theater hall with 900 seats, dining room with 400 seats, restaurant, club rooms	built as a culture house for the company holiday homes of SAG Wismut in hard-classifying forms	lay fallow for several years as a poorly secured ruin without inventory, from 2017 onwards it was converted into apartments
Zschornewitz 51 ° 42 ′ 51 ″ N, 12 ° 24 ′ 1 ″ E	Saxony-Anhalt	Gasthof der Reichs elektrowerke , clubhouse »Aktivist«	1915, 1929					Monument, ruinous, z, T. demolished, privatized in 2015, renovation stagnated
Zwickau 50 ° 44 ′ 26 ″ N, 12 ° 29 ′ 21 ″ E	Saxony	Kulturhaus "Neue Welt" , concert and ball house "Neue Welt"	1902–1903, 1977–1980 single-storey extension with foyer a. restaurant	Johannes Henning; Jürgen Thiele, Karl-Heinz Barth (extension)	city	large hall with surrounding galleries with approx. 3,000 seats, parquet, large foyer with approx. 200 seats, club room, restaurant with approx. 130 seats.	largest terrace hall in Saxony with valuable Art Nouveau ornaments and furnishings; Restored in the mid 80s; representative venue	In operation

See also

• Culture in the GDR
• Bitterfeld way
• Clubhouse
• District culture academy
• Architecture in the German Democratic Republic

literature

• Hanns Hopp (Hrsg.): Buildings of the society . VEB Verlag Technik , Berlin, 1954
• Simone Hain , Stephan Stroux, Michael Schroedter: The salons of the socialists. Culture houses in the GDR . Ch. Links, Berlin 1996 ISBN 3-86153-118-6 (with many photos of the state of the cultural centers 1993–1996)
• Ulrich Hartung: Workers 'and farmers' temples. GDR cultural centers of the fifties. A compendium of architectural history. At the same time dissertation from the Humboldt University Berlin, 1996. Schlezky & Jeep, Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-89541-102-7 (history of the GDR cultural centers of the 1950s and detailed, illustrated catalog)
• Thomas Ruben, Bernd Wagner (ed.): Culture houses in Brandenburg. An inventory. Final report of the research project "The culture houses in Brandenburg, inventory and concept development" by the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e. V. Brandenburger texts on art and culture, volume 1. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 1994 ISBN 3-930850-05-2
• Horst Groschopp : Culture houses in the GDR - forerunners, concepts, use . ( Digitized version )
• Mark Escherich (Ed.): Urban Development & Monument Preservation 18: Monument East Modern II . jovis, Berlin 2016

exhibition

• The cultural wonder in East Germany - retrospectives and perspectives. Traveling exhibition based on a documentation by Peter Goedel . Since March 2016, u. a. in Potsdam, Munich, Weisswasser.

Web links

Commons : Kulturhaus (DDR)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Demolition of the RFT Kulturhaus Arnstadt. Retrieved December 17, 2019 . 
2. ^ Ade Concordia | Blog Arnscht. Accessed December 19, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Website of the Kulturhaus
5. ^ Website of the Kulturhaus
6. ↑ Documentation of the cultural center
7. ↑ Documentation of the cultural center
8. ↑ Demolition of the town hall in Bad Liebenstein
9. ^ Website of the Kulturhaus
10. ^ Website of the Kulturhaus
11. ^ Website of the Kulturhaus
12. ↑ Newspaper report about the Kulturhaus
13. ↑ Newspaper report about the Kulturhaus
14. ^ The building workers' cultural center was inaugurated. In: Neues Deutschland , June 27, 1952, p. 6
15. ↑ Documentation of the cultural center
16. ↑ Newspaper report about the Kulturhaus
17. ^ Website of the Kulturhaus
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