Cultural center
This article is about the type of meeting place. See also: GDR Cultural Centre Paris.
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Cultural centre is often a term for a place of assembly in a building that combines premises for culture, social projects and gastronomy of a community under one roof. The building essentially consists of one or more halls with various adjoining rooms.
Cultural centres are either run by the municipality, a non-profit organisation or an association and usually have to be subsidised by the municipality because they could not be economically self-supporting.
The term community center often refers to the same thing. It was common as a building form in the 1970s and 1980s in West German small and medium-sized municipalities.
Buildings with a comparable function in the GDR were the Kulturhäuser.
In more recent times, buildings for religious practice, such as mosques, have also been combined with cultural uses (Islamic cultural centre).
The Deutschvilla in Strobl am Wolfgangsee (Salzburg) is used by an association as a cultural centre.
Nationally known cultural centers
- KOMM Nuremberg
- Köpi, Berlin
See also
- Art Center
