The Belle Epoque in Europe
Germany
Freiburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg): City
Heinrich Seeling (1852-1932)
Municipal Theatre (1905-10)
Werderring/Bertoldstraße 46/Platz der Alten Synagoge (Theaterplatz)
Opening on October 8, 1910 with Weber's Jubel Overture, Schiller's Wallenstein's Camp and the Scene on the Festival Meadow from Richard Wagner's Mastersingers.
1939 renovation of the auditorium, removal of the essential parts of the original Jugendstil decoration.
1944 severe damages by bomb attacks.
1949 very simple restoration, 1962 rebuilding and removal of the characteristic Jugendstil pediment which
was not destroyed during the war.
The Theatre on
old postcards
Andreas Praefcke, Ravensburg
The Jugendstil pediment
Postcard from
Alt-Freiburg in Bildern
Hermann Billing (1867-1946), Friedrich Ratzel (1869-1907)
Kollegiengebäude I (Main Building, 1907-11) of the Albert Ludwig University
Raimund Jeblinger (1853-1937)
Archiepiscopal Ordinariate (1903-06), Herrenstraße 35/Schoferstraße
Arthur Levi, Hermann Schupp
Apartment and business house (1907), Löwenstraße 1
August Krieger
Gartenstr. 8/10
(1906/1907)
Robert Mühlbach
Gartenstr. 12
(1906)
Herman Geis/
Carl Bauer
Gartenstr. 13/15
(1904)
Herman Geis/
Carl Bauer
Gartenstr. 13/15
(1904)
Josef Ruh (?)
Gartenstr. 9
(1903)
Josef Nerbel (?)
Eisenbahnstr. 35
(1905)
Mariensteg
(1900/01)
Mariensteg
(1900/01)