The National Theatre

Stone theatres had been built in cities of the countryside across Europe in the last decades of the 19th century. When Szeged was rebuilt after the Great Flood of 1879, the leadership contracted the Vienna-based Fellner & Hellmer Company (of European significance) to plan a theatre. Construction works were carried out by the local Jiraszek and Krausz Co. It was not the first theatre in town, the local theatre company had performed in a wooden building.