Join us on a tour of the historic halls of the Baden-Baden casino.

The Entrance
The Austrian Room
The Winter Garden
The Red Room
The Salon Pompadour
The Margrave Room
The Baccara Terrace
The Florentine Room
The New Rooms
Tours

Welcome to one of the world’s most beautiful casinos! Visitors to the casino can purchase their tickets at the Reception.

The portrait of casino lessee Jacques Bénazet in the Foyer.	A glass case with jeton series used in Baden-Baden since 1938, old roulette rakes and gold and silver jetons.

The Austrian Room is decorated with paintings of Empress Maria Theresa and her son, Emperor Joseph II.

The Winter Garden forms the entrance to the sumptuous rooms of the casino, opened in 1855. It is constructed of white marble, and the walls are embellished with gilded wooden lattice-work. The raised cupola lets daylight shine through. French Roulette is offered at two tables in the Winter Garden.

This fountain in the style of the Second Empire and old vases are part of the decorations in the Winter Garden.

The Red Room, one of the historic palatial rooms of the casino built during the reconstruction which took place between 1852 and 1855, makes no attempt to conceal its stylistic origins in the baroque castle at Versailles. The walls are covered with red Lyons silk damask and the doors and windows are richly embellished. The marble fireplace, dominated by a large mirror, and the chandeliers finished in gilded bronze probably reflect precisely the tastes of Edouard Bénazet's public.

The Salon Pompadour

Adjoining the Red Room is the small Salon Pompadour, which owes its name to Madame Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress and an experienced gambler. Her picture, painted by the rococo artist Jean-Etienne Liotard, adorns this intimate little room.

The friezes over the mirrors and doors repeat symbolic motifs - eagles, cocks, rams and unicorns. The Margrave Room contains two large Chinese vases from the Hsien-Feng period and six 18th century portraits, loaned by the Margrave of Baden. The picture painted by Johann Grund of the Margrave and later first Grand Duke of Baden Carl Friedrich is worthy of note. Carl Friedrich, who at the end of his long rule (1739-1811) was called the "senior European regent", was the perfect example of a prince of the Enlightement and was once characterized as being: "a little old-fashioned and pedantic but otherwise the most energetic man in the Empire after Frederick the Great.”

He abolished bondage and torture in Baden, renovated Heidelberg University (which still bears his name today) and turned Karlsruhe into a modern royal capital.

After the death of his cultured wife Luise Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, he married Fräulein Geyer von Geyersberg, this being a morganatic union in view of the difference in their social status. Her picture also hangs in the little portrait gallery in the Margrave Room.
Here you find one American Roulette table and one French Roulette table which is used for demonstrating the roulette game.

The Baccara Terrace
Behind the façade of the Kurhaus lies the Baccara Terrace with the Baccara Bar. Baccara lovers from all over the world will feel at home here.

The particular attraction of the Baccara Terrace is the view of the lovely gardens in front of the Kurhaus.

Adjoining the Baccara Terrace is Club Bénazet, which was opened in 1993. American Roulette, Black Jack and poker are offered here daily.
Here you find the card games Black Jack, Poker, Tropical Poker and Baccara.

Der Florentiner Saal
The Florentine Room, also known as the 'Hall of the Thousand Candles', is lit by five very large chandeliers During the time of the casino licensee Edouard Bénazet, this room also served as a ballroom. The orchestra played in a shell suspended from the ceiling.
The Florentine Room is named after the Florentine painters, who decorated many French castles in the late Renaissance period, notably Fontainebleau.

When the casino was rebuilt between 1852 and 1855 it was conceived as the climax and crowning glory of the Second Empire rooms and therefore furnished and decorated particularly luxuriously. This is probably still Baden-Baden's most popular gaming room today. The four Bénazet Rooms are the work of the Paris set designer and interior designer Polycarne-Charles Séchan, a pupil of the famous set designer Charles Cicéri. Séchan worked in Baden-Baden with his son-in-law Haumont and Dieterlé, just as he had often done earlier in Paris when designing sets for the Grand Opera in the rue Le Peletier.

The commission he carried out in Baden-Baden and the decoration of the Sultan's palace at Dolmabahçe on the Bosporus were the last work he did.
In the gigantic murals in the Florentine Room, Séchan demonstrates his skills as a decorator. They depict imaginary landscapes with ancient buildings. A celestial orchestra composed of angels, genies and cupids gives life to the equally lavishly painted ceiling, in the four corners of which can be seen the coats of arms of Baden towns, framed by figures symbolizing nobility, wealth, agriculture, industry, science, art and beauty.
Classical sculptures of women in niches and below wall mirrors complete the decor.

Euroulette is played in the Florentine Room.

The New Rooms

Salon Américain and the Sommergarten

On leaving the Florentine Room, the visitor enters two further rooms adjoining one another which were built as part of the extension programme carried out in the early 1970s and opened in 1974 during the annual Iffezheim race meeting known as the 'Grand Racing Week', which takes place at the end of August. The hallmark of the New Rooms are columns adorned with copper-colour mosaics and a heavy copper ceiling from which numerous lamps illuminate the gaming area.

The goal of the renovation project in the catering area was to create a Mediterranean summer landscape. Islands of plants, extraordinary lamps as well as an open and inviting bar with fountains on the sides have succeeded in creating a warm, summery ambience.

The generous islands of plants form a link between the historic rooms and the newly designed Sommergarten. The include various Mediterranean plants such as olive trees and palm trees all of which have trunks made of real wood. The islands of plants furthermore divide the relatively large room into three small and cosy sections, thus yielding a pleasant atmosphere for guests.

The interior designers came up with something truly special for the lighting: exclusive, highly unusual silk lamps from an Israeli artist shed a warm and pleasant light. Some of them are used as wall lights, while others are placed throughout the room as works of art.