Tonhalle Düsseldorf
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Tonhalle Düsseldorf is a concert hall in Düsseldorf
. It was built by the architect Wilhelm Kreis
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, the biggest in the world at the point of construction. During the 1970s it was converted into a concert hall.
Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf is the capital city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and centre of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region.Düsseldorf is an important international business and financial centre and renowned for its fashion and trade fairs. Located centrally within the European Megalopolis, the...
. It was built by the architect Wilhelm Kreis
Wilhelm Kreis
Wilhelm Kreis was a prominent German architect and professor of architecture, active through four political systems in German history: the Wilhelmine era, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, and the foundation of the Federal Republic.Kreis was born in Eltville am Rhein in Hesse-Nassau...
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History
It was built in 1926 as a planetariumPlanetarium
A planetarium is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation...
, the biggest in the world at the point of construction. During the 1970s it was converted into a concert hall.