Royal palace
The Royal Palast was a cinema in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg ( Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district ) on Tauentzienstrasse , which had the world's largest curved projection screen when it opened in 1965 .
history
The Royal Palace was built in the early 1960s as part of the construction of the Europa Center , into which the cinema was directly integrated. The Royal Palace was designed and built by Helmut Hentrich , Hubert Petschnigg and Klaus Heese . Originally the cinema only had two halls, named Royal Palast and City . The name was given by a reader survey in the Berlin tabloid BZ. The smaller City Hall was opened on May 21, 1965, followed by the Royal Palace on August 5, 1965. The 120-degree, 420 square meter projection screen of the Royal Palace was the largest at the time curved screen of the world and was covered by Berlin's largest curtain. The opening film was the George Stevens production The Greatest Story of All Time .
In 1983 the cinema was expanded to include three more smaller halls, and the entire cinema complex was given the common name Royal Palast.
The Royal Palast had to close on April 28, 2004 under competitive pressure from the numerous multiplex cinemas opened in Berlin . The building complex was demolished two years later as part of the modernization of the Europa Center. Since 2007, a "Saturn" electronics store has been in its place .
Web links
- Royal Palast on berlin.de
- Royal Palast on www.kinokompendium.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Royal Palast on kinokompendium.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 14.8 " N , 13 ° 20 ′ 17.6" E