Palace of Culture
Culture palace were called and hot in socialist and former socialist countries is very large, dedicated building for cultural purposes, often with cinema, theater, discotheque, restaurant, exhibitions, libraries, sports facilities and function rooms and other things equipped. They were mostly built in the major cities or capitals. In the 1950s, they were under the influence of the Stalinist architecture doctrine often the function of the central, formative silhouette skyscraper take over (see the Palace of Culture in Warsaw). The smaller facilities with this purpose usually called culture house, but were in some cases also called Palace of Culture.
The first Palace of Culture in the GDR was built in 1950 on behalf of SAG bismuth as " Palace of Culture of the miners " in Chemnitz. The architects were Kurt Ritter, Adam Burger and Joachim Rackwitz. The Palace of Culture hosted an auditorium with 900 seats, a second large hall for dancing, a restaurant and a café, a library and a women, children, music and billiard room. The heritage protection building fell by its present owners shortly before the demolition.
Built in 1966 to 1969 by architect Wolfgang Hänsch Palace of Culture in Dresden has a large hall (for concerts and conventions ), a chamber theater and several meeting rooms attributable to the type of culture and congress center. The Dresden Palace of Culture is a historical monument since 2008.
Established in 2008, demolished Palast der Republik in Berlin with several rooms and restaurants had many elements of a Palace of Culture and was also designed and used as parliament building.
Other famous palaces of culture are:
- Palace of Culture Bitterfeld ( Bitterfeld Way )
- Palace of Culture Hamburg
- Palace of Culture in Moscow,
- Palace of Culture of National Minorities, Beijing
- Palace of Culture of the People, Pyongyang
- Palace of Culture in Prague
- Culture and Science Palace in Riga
- National Palace of Culture (Sofia )
- Palace of Culture (Tirana )
- Palace of Culture in Warsaw