Volkstheater

Volkstheater sits at Neustiftgasse 1 and was completed in 1889 to serve as a theater. So if you take the number of seats as a criterion to judge, the Volkstheater is not even the biggest theatre of Vienna, but ranks as number two after the Burgtheater. Originally, it seated 1,900 people; after WWII, however, this number was reduced to approximately 1,500 and today, the Volkstheater has space for only 970 people. Like the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, the Vienna Volkstheater was built by the architects Ferdinand Fellner and Hermann Helmer.