Schauspielhaus Zürich: Schiffbau
Former shipbuilding hall turned three-stage theatre, still ringing with iron trusses overhead.
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This guide to the Schauspielhaus Zurich's Schiffbau stage traces the hall back to its life as a boiler forge for the Escher Wyss shipworks, where crews riveted together roughly six hundred vessels bound for Swiss lakes and foreign navies. It follows one paddle steamer built here in 1909, the Stadt Zurich, and the 1912 visit that earned her a royal nickname. You'll hear how the shipyard itself faded before the building found a new life under the same iron trusses. Listen for the echo of hammers the architects chose not to erase.
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