City Theater Düren
| City Theater Düren | |
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 City Theater Düren 1918 |
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| Data | |
| place | Düren , Germany |
| architect | Carl Moritz |
| Construction year | 1905-1907 |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 48 '12.1 " N , 6 ° 28' 47.7" E |
| particularities | |
| destroyed November 16, 1944 | |
The Stadttheater Düren was built between 1905 and 1907 and stood on what is now Hoeschplatz in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , until the Second World War .
The manufacturer from Düren, Eberhard Hoesch , provided 500,000 marks for the construction of a new theater. Until then, theater was played in the halls of the restaurants , now a representative building should be built.
Only 14 months after the foundation stone was laid on November 17, 1905, namely on January 17, 1907, the theater was able to open. The building, built in Art Nouveau style by the Cologne architect Carl Moritz , offered space for 700 visitors. The stage was 20 m wide and 28 m deep. In addition to a spacious foyer , offices, cloakrooms, magazines, a prop room and workshops were part of the theater.
With the Leopold Hoesch Museum opposite , the city theater was the most representative building in the city. The theater did not have its own ensemble. Many well-known stages gave guest performances in Düren. Well-known artists appeared in the city theater, for example Willy Birgel , Paul Henckels , Asta Nielsen , Elly Ney and Herbert von Karajan . From 1937 to 1944 Erna Flecke-Schiefenbusch was the general manager.
The city theater was destroyed in the air raid on November 16, 1944. Only the basement and the facade were preserved. After the war a restaurant was set up in the basement. In March 1952 the walls of the ruin were torn down. The wall of the cemetery in Kölnstrasse was built with the stones. The flat basement of the former theater was used as a dance hall until 1971 and then demolished.
After the war, the theater performances began again in the festival hall of the provincial institutions, now LVR-Klinik Düren , on April 25, 1946. After a long interlude in the assembly hall of the collegiate high school , the city theater has been in the city's house since November 30, 1991 home.