Berolzheimerianum
Berolzheimerianum stands in Fürth as a Jugendstil building with richly articulated plaster façades and a sandstone base. Its asymmetrical arrangement brings together a three-storey southern hall and a northern entrance building.
Heinrich Berolzheimer and his sons Emil and Philip funded the public education house with more than 223,000 gold marks. Otto Holzer, Alfred Ammon and Josef Zizler shaped the design, which opened in 1906 with a library, concerts, lectures and exhibitions. During the First World War, the building served as a reserve hospital for wounded soldiers. Under National Socialism, officials removed references to its Jewish founders and renamed it Volksbildungszentrum.
The library reopened in 1946, restoring the original name and its educational role. Since 1998, Comödie Fürth has filled the building with a theatre and restaurant. A hipped roof, side risalit and gable mark the northern entrance, while the southern hall carries a gabled roof.
- City
- Fürth
- Content updated
Take this page with you
The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Fürth. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.