Royal Playhouse (Potsdam)
Potsdam, Germany
The Royal Playhouse (Königliche Schauspielhaus) was a theatre built by Frederick William II of Prussia for the citizens of Potsdam. It was later known as the City Theatre (Stadttheater) and popularly as the Canal Opera House (Kanaloper). It was located at 8 Am Kanal on the Stadtkanal in the city to designs by Carl Gotthard Langhans or Michael Philipp Boumann in an early Neoclassical style between 1793 and 1796. Boumann was awarded the construction contract. At the end of the Second World War it was destroyed by artillery fire and in 1966 the ruins were demolished to make way for a 17-storey prefabricated apartment building.
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