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1748- The first mention in an official
document of licensed gambling in Baden-Baden
1809- Opening of the gaming room in the
Konversationshaus on Marktplatz (Market Square), now the
Town Hall. Gambling also took place in the Promenadenhaus,
which was located where the Kurhaus is today.
1824- Friedrich Weinbrenner builds the
Kurhaus. The gaming room there is today known as the Weinbrenner
Room. The government of the Grand Duke in Karlsruhe signs
a 15-year lease with the casino operator Chabert.
1838- The gaming rooms in the Paris Palais
Royal are closed. The Paris casino lessee Jacques Bénazet
takes over the casino in Baden-Baden. The fashionable
game of roulette gradually ousts the card games pharao
and rouge et noir.
1848- After the death of his father,
Edouard Bénazet takes over the casino. The new
lessee, who counts many prominent people among his friends,
arranges for famous musicians and actors to come to Baden-Baden
and organizes the first Iffezheim race meeting in 1858.
1855- Edouard Bénazet inaugurates
the new gaming rooms in the right wing of the Kurhaus,
which were created by interior decorators and artists
from Paris: the Winter Garden, the Red Room, the Florentine
Room and the Salon Pompadour.
1872- The German government in Berlin
orders the closing of all German casinos.
1933- The casino is reopened for business,
to be closed again in 1944 in the final months of the
Second World War.
1950- Ceremonial opening of the "third"
Baden-Baden casino.
2003- On 1 August the license for the
Baden-Baden casino for the next 10 years was transferred
to the Baden-Württembergische Spielbanken GmbH &
Co. KG. All three Baden-Württembergische casinos
in Baden-Baden, Konstanz and Stuttgart now belong to one
new company.
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