Kroll Opera House

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The Kroll Opera House was a historic Berlin theater that became infamous as the temporary seat of the German Reichstag during the Nazi era.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf former seat of parliament
opera house
theatre building
architect Carl Ferdinand Langhans
Eduard Knoblauch NERFINISHED
associatedWith Adolf Hitler
Hermann Göring
Nazi regime
country Germany
currentSiteUse part of the government quarter in Berlin
damagedBy Allied bombing of Berlin
damagedDuring World War II
demolishedBy authorities of West Berlin
demolitionDate 1951
GermanName Krolloper
hasCoordinates approx. 52.518°N 13.375°E
heritageStatus no longer extant
knownFor modern and experimental opera productions in the 1920s
political significance as temporary Reichstag chamber
languageOfName German
locatedIn Berlin
Tiergarten
locatedNear Brandenburg Gate
Reichstag building
locatedOn Königsplatz (historic name of Platz der Republik)
namedAfter Joseph Kroll NERFINISHED
notableEvent opening session of the Reichstag after the Reichstag fire in March 1933
session of 23 March 1933 that passed the Enabling Act
openingDate 1844
operator Prussian State Opera (in certain periods)
originalFunction entertainment venue with gardens and restaurants
periodAsReichstagSeat 1933–1942
politicalSystemContext German Empire
Nazi Germany
Weimar Republic
reasonForParliamentMove Reichstag building fire of 27 February 1933
stateAfterWar ruin
use concert venue
opera house
seat of the German Reichstag
theatre for spoken drama
usedAsSeatOf Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Reichstag of the German Empire
Reichstag of the Weimar Republic

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Reichstag of Nazi Germany
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