A gaming house (also play casino) is a publicly accessible mechanism, in which nationally licensed gambling is operated.

Historical

The term "„Casino"” (late gaming house and/or Spielcasino) originally designates a entertainment place of venezianischer land people. A Spielcasino was always a linkage of pleasures and useful one. Institutionalizing gambling took place in Europe in the baths and health resorts, on fairs, fairs and noble balls and in the large cities.

According to historical sources already first gambling took place in the open air, particularly in times of the veneziansichen Karnevals since 1170 in Venice. First licensed play houses are in 14. /15. To find century in Holland and Flanders. The first German play house is 1396 in Frankfurt/Main. 1638 became the venezianische "„Ridotto "“first exclusive gambling place. 1720 were created the first gaming house in the German countries in bath Ems. 1763 are opened in Spa "„the Redoute "“, which develops shortly to one of the largest luck play metropolises. With the French revolution however all Casinos is closed. Thus the German countries become the center of the luck players, in particular the Casinos in Aachen and Baden-Baden (1824). In the year 1841 the Frenchmen Blanc and Louis Blanc with the establishment of the gaming house of bath Homburg create the doubles Zero off, whereby the bath becomes Homburger Casino the most successful gaming house of this time. 1866 write Dostojewski in bath Homburg the two novels "„the player"” and "„to Babuschka"” countess Sophie Kisseleff.

1863 took over Blanc the Casino of Monte Carlo, which becomes finally "„the world capital of the luxury and gambling "“. This fusion of gambling and art and Entertainment approximately 100 years become later the model of read Vegas. 1942 opened in read Vegas the first Casino named "„to El Rancho "“. After the Casinos was firm in Nevada first in the hand of the mafia, the Bandenwirtschaftin yielded the 60's increasingly the Shareholdermanagement.

In Germany officially a gambling prohibition existed from 1871 to 1933.

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