Reduta Theatre

The present Reduta building is a result of complicated construction development that had gone on, with numerous remodelling and annexes, for several centuries. The basis is formed by a Liechtenstein corner house, which the city purchased in 1600, establishing “a New Tavern”, later called “Grand Tavern” in it as a representative building intended for distinguished guests to the city. In 1634 an adjoining house was purchased, refurbished, and connected to the existing building to form an enclosed one–floor complex, whose proportions correspond to the Reduta of today. Occasional theatre productions had been performed in the city tavern probably from as early as the 1660s but only in 1733 a separate box-type theatre with a deep perspective stage was built in the eastern wing of this complex. In 1785 and 1786 the building was reduced to ashes by a devastating fire.