Cinemas in Düren

Location of the Germania cinema 2015

There used to be many cinemas in Düren . Düren is a district town in North Rhine-Westphalia . Today there is only the Comet-Cinema in Düren-Nord , which opened in 1998 and was renamed Das Lumen in 2013 after a change of ownership , in Fritz-Erler-Straße.

The Lumen Filmtheater is a modern multiplex cinema with now eight halls and a total of 1,334 seats, of which 43 are D-Box motion seats . The original seven halls were expanded in September 2018 by a small 8th room "My Private Lumen" on the ground floor. The cinema does without classic product advertising before the films. The concept of “advertising-free screens” is made possible through various collaborations.

Many cinemas were destroyed in World War II and not rebuilt. Others had to close due to a lack of viewers due to television and other media etc.

• The Apollo , Oberstrasse 50 in Düren, was there from 1919 with 276 seats. It was also called the "Düren movie theater".
• The Biograph , Nideggener Str. 55 in Düren-Süd, was founded before 1919.
• The Burg-Theater , later also called Scala , was located on Monschauer Strasse in Rölsdorf, about opposite the street “Zum Volkspark” until the 1960s . Today the house at Monschauer Straße 144 with a garage yard is located on the property. The cinema was in an annex (hall) that no longer exists today.
• The film stage was located in the house at Meckerstrasse 15 in Düren-Nord at the (replacement) city theater after the war from 1947.
• The Lendersdorf film theater was located in the Lendersdorf district of Düren in the house at Hauptstrasse 92. It was closed in the 1960s. The cinema bus stop of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB) is still reminiscent of the movie theater today .
• The Germania was in the middle of the main shopping street in the city center, Wirtelstraße 23. The house now houses a drugstore. The cinema was founded in 1912 and had 912 seats. This made it the largest cinema in Düren until the new Comet Cinema was built.
• The Gloria was in the Düren district of Merken . It was on Echtzer Strasse and had 325 seats. It was actually too big for the small town.
• The Jugendlichtspiele in Haus Goethestrasse 3 in the city center existed from 1927 until it was destroyed in the war.
• The Metropol in the Düren green belt was opened on March 27, 1957 and existed until the 1960s. After a supermarket closed there years ago, a local supply and service center has been opened there.
• The Metropolitan Josef Rixen was in the city in the Kölnstraße 27. It was opened in 1925 with 300 seats. In the same year it moved as a world cinematographer to Oberstrasse 50 in Hubert Laprell's "Düsseldorfer-Hof" restaurant and was henceforth called Apollo (see above).
• Die Neue Lichtspiele , a small cinema with 143 seats, was located in Düren-Ost at the end of Kölner Landstrasse 365.
• The Northern Lights Games in Düren-Nord were in the house on the corner of Neue- / Alte-Jülicher Strasse. There is now a Turkish supermarket there.
• The palace theater was located in the Birkesdorf district of Düren at Dürener Strasse 139. It had 600 seats.
• The Schauburg was demolished as the penultimate cinema in Düren at Josef-Schregel-Straße 4 in the 1980s. There is a shopping arcade there today.

The former location of the Schauburg 2015

• The UT-Lichtspiele , also Kaiser-Kino , were in the Wirtelstrasse house before the Second World War . 20. The UT was the last cinema in Düren and was located on Kleine Zehnthofstrasse in the city center after the war. Today there are several shops in the building. It existed from 1916 to March 25, 1998.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/aus-comet-cinemas-wird-das-lumen-1.576481
2. ↑ The Lumen Film Theater. Retrieved July 21, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Duren Apollo - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
4. ^ Düren Biograph Theater - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
5. ^ Düren Scala Theater - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Timetable DKB line 202. (PDF; 111 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 19, 2011 ; Retrieved February 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Düren Germania-Lichtspiele - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Düren New Light Games Düren-Ost - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Duren Northern Lights Games - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
10. ^ Düren UT-Lichtspiele - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 . 
11. ^ Düren Kaiser-Kino - Kinowiki. Retrieved September 29, 2012 .