Cinemas in Herford

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Of the numerous cinemas in Herford , only one public cinema is left. All the cinemas that have ever existed in the East Westphalian city ​​of Herford are listed below .

The highest number of visitors in the Herford cinemas was in 1958 when more than a million cinema tickets were sold. At that time there were six cinemas with 3600 seats in the then 55,000-inhabitant city. Four years later there were just under 500,000 visitors. Since there is only one cinema in Herford, the number of visitors has been between 60,000 and 70,000 a year.

Existing cinema

Capitol Herford

The only remaining public cinema in the city is the Capitol at Elisabethstrasse 1a. The Herford Lichtspielpalast (Helipa), founded in 1927, was renamed the Capitol in 1937. From 1945 to 1950 theatrical performances were also held there. Since a renovation in 1979 there are four cinemas. The cinema was closed from November 1, 2009 to November 11, 2010. Since the renovation and reopening, the cinema has 425 seats, with the largest room seating 200.

Due to the corona pandemic , the cinema was closed from mid-March to the end of June 2020.

Former cinemas

Wittekind cinema

As early as 1908 there was a permanent cinema venue in the Passage Theater in Herford. It was located on Radewiger Straße and was later renamed Viktoria-Lichtspiele .

With the Wittekind light games , the first Herford cinema was built in 1913 on the site of the former Weinberg chocolate factory at Höckerstraße 5. It had 400 seats. In 1927 the building was rebuilt, brought up to date with the latest technology and provided with a surrounding balcony. From then on, 900 places were available. In 2001 the cinema was closed and partially demolished. In the meantime, a senior citizens' residence has been built on the rear part of the property. The former cinema building was completely demolished in November 2017.

Before 1919 the movie theater on Alter Markt, the cinema theater on Johannisstrasse and the Kammerspiele on Hollandstrasse were opened.

In June 1949 the Welt-Lichtspiele opened in the rooms of a former dance hall at Mindener Straße 38. In 1952 the cinema moved into a new building at Bruchstrasse 4 on the southern edge of the Lübberbruch . From now on there was the Scala cinema at the old address. In the mid-1980s the Welt-Lichtspiele, which were now located near the city ​​theater and the Ravensberger grammar school, were closed. The Grün-Gold dance club has had its headquarters in the building since 1986.

The Werre-Lichtspiele in Eimterstraße 99 were called the “Puschenkino” because supposedly many people from the neighborhood went there in slippers. It had 140 seats and existed between the 1950s and mid-1960s.

Also in the first half of the 1960s, the Scala cinema, which opened in 1952, closed at Mindener Strasse 38. From January 1966 to October 1970, the Jaguar Club , one of the most famous beat clubs in East Westphalia-Lippe, was located there. At that time, well-known great musicians such as Jimi Hendrix , Status Quo and Manfred Mann performed there. From 1978 to 1981, the premises under the name Scala Herford served as a venue for punk , reggae and new wave concerts. On January 11, 1982, the building was demolished. Today the site belongs to the secondary school in Meierfeld.

The newest cinema in Herford was the film studio opened in 1957 on the corner of Gehrenberg and Brüderstraße. While there were shops on the first floor, the cinema was above. After it was closed in 1990, the cinema was converted into a sales area.

In the Elverdissen district , at Schulstrasse 273, there was once a cinema with 450 seats.

Within the Wentworth Barracks on Liststrasse on Stiftberg , the British Armed Forces operated a cinema called Globe for their relatives until 2015 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cinemas in North Rhine-Westphalia, see there under Herford
  2. ↑ Capitol
  3. ↑ Neue Westfälische of August 14, 2018, Mareike Gröneweg: Capitol is hoping for an autumn with many visitors
  4. ↑ Eike J. Horstmann: The Herford Capitol Cinema is fighting for survival. Retrieved May 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Witt child cinema
  6. ^ Jobst Lüdeking: Bagger eats its way through Höckerstraße 5 . In: Herford . ( nw.de [accessed on November 6, 2017]).
  7. ^ Film studio