Regentenbau (Bad Kissingen)

The concert hall was built from 1911 to 1913 in a neo-baroque style according to the plans of the architect Max Littmann.

[2] This order, for which the Bavarian government released funding in 1910, included also the construction of the Wandelhalle (promenade hall) and the renovation and structural integration of the older Arkadenbau of Friedrich von Gärtner, a 200-meter-long arcade building from 1838 with its hall Conversationssaal (today Rossini-Saal), to the Regentenbau.

From the opening until 1918 the Vienna Symphony as the saisonal spa orchestra performed its evening concerts at the Regentenbau.

In the recent past the Philharmonie Festiva and the conductor Gerd Schaller produced CD recordings of symphonic works of Anton Bruckner,[8] Johannes Brahms, and Franz Schubert,[9] as well as the first recordings of the opera Merlin by Carl Goldmark[10] and the Great Mass by Johann Ritter von Herbeck.

[8] Many concerts of the Kissinger Sommer are recorded in the Max-Littmann-Saal by the public broadcasting company Bayerischer Rundfunk.

The hall in rokoko style of about 150 square meters and a capacity 100 places is also used for small concerts.

Littmann transformed the old Conversationssaal (Conversation Hall) of Friedrich von Gärtner and created an additional stage.

After the general renovation around the year 2000 the hall was renamed Rossini-Saal after the composer Gioachino Rossini, who has visited Bad Kissingen as a spa guest in 1856.