Kulturpalast Unterwellenborn, Performing arts center in Unterwellenborn, Germany

The Kulturpalast Unterwellenborn is a performing arts center with theater stages and multiple performance halls housed in a substantial building in Thuringia. The facility includes different spaces designed to host theatrical productions, concerts, and other types of performances.

The Kulturpalast was handed over on 13 October 1954 to the Maxhütte's works union for free use by employees, with a hall, works library, daylight cinema and event service. The first sod was cut on 16 April 1952 and the foundation stone laid on 22 June 1952. In 1963 it became a district culture house, and in 1981 it was dedicated to the poet Johannes R. Becher.

In 1981 the Kulturpalast was dedicated to the poet Johannes R. Becher, and in 1963 it became a Kreiskulturhaus. Its halls housed a library, a daylight cinema and event services run by the Maxhütte works union, and buses brought visitors from neighbouring districts.

The building stands on a small hill between three settlements, near Unterwellenborn station on the Leipzig–Probstzella line and close to the B 281. In GDR times it was linked to public transport, with bus transfers bringing visitors from neighbouring districts. The main entrance faces a courtyard framed by two side wings.

Architect Josef Kaiser, who signed the accepted fourth design, had worked since the mid-1930s as an opera singer as well as an architect, so he knew theatre acoustics from his own experience. The writer Ror Wolf worked on the site as a Maxhütte concrete-construction apprentice and witnessed the 17 June 1953 uprising shortly before fleeing to West Germany.