Ballroom

Princely pleasure

In the Baroque era, ballrooms usually only existed in large residences, such as Versailles or Vienna.

They were venues for the jeu de paume, the forerunner of tennis, which emerged in the middle of the 15th century, and were also used for dance events in the 18th century.

The Versailles Ballroom gained historical fame through the “Ballroom Oath” of June 20, 1789, “to meet until a constitution is established and permanently formed on a firm basis”. The French Revolution thus gained momentum. Very soon, the Kirchheimbolander Ballhaus was no longer a princely place of entertainment.