Odeon cinema
The Odeon-Lichtspielhaus is a listed building in Heidelberg .
It was built in 1910/11 by the architects Heinrich Kumpf and Carl Wolf and was the first building in Heidelberg that was specially built for a movie theater . The cinema was up to its task in 1971 on the ground floor and the main floor was a cafe. After the cinema was closed, shops were opened.
The three-story house is located in the western half of Hauptstrasse , the most important street in Heidelberg's old town . The representative neoclassical sandstone facade has five window axes, which are divided by Ionic columns . Between the first and second floors there are reliefs depicting the arts. On the mansard roof there is a tower on which Heidelberg's first neon sign used to be .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation (publisher): Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Baden-Württemberg, city district of Heidelberg , Thorbecke-Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-7995-0426-3
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Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 37.3 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 47.6" E