Tarm Center
The Tarm Center (alternative spelling tarm center ) was an internationally known large discotheque opened in 1986 in the Rombacher Hütte industrial area in Bochum .
description
The Tarm Center set new standards with the new concept of experience gastronomy with an integrated restaurant, several bars, discos and a 600 m 2 outdoor area with swimming pool . The main disco, with its architecture and elaborate light, laser and sound technology, not only served as a disco, but was also used for TV recordings and as a demonstration room for laser shows . The Tarm Center belonged to the tarm group of companies, which was able to test and demonstrate large parts of the product range at that time under real conditions in live use. Although the first laser systems could already be shown in the theater de tao , which opened in 1979, in downtown Bochum, it was only in the building, which was conceived as a disco from the beginning, that the possibilities of laser and show technology could be demonstrated. In the early 1990s, the Tarm Center was a hot spot for many producers and newcomers from the Ruhr area's DJ sector . Although the Tarm Center served as a model for many other European discotheques, it had to be closed on April 30, 2003 after 17 years, as it was not possible to agree with the lessor on the terms of a lease extension.
The name "Tarm" is a portmanteau of the first letter of T echnical A KUSTIK R üdiger M üller - the company to which the Tarm belonged Center. In the meantime, the naming rights are no longer with the former company founder, but with two of his partners at the time.
Succession concepts / use today
The building complex, which was originally realized in red clinker, hardly reminds the subsequent users of the time as the leading “noble disco”: The operators of the successor concepts “Exhibition”, “Rombachs” and “Ruhrpalais-Bochum” were unable to build on the success of the Tarm Center and had to stop operating. From March 2009 to December 2010, the building complex was used by new operators under the names "Fridays" and "Polonia Palais", but at the beginning of 2011 the "Polonia Palais" moved to the Ruhr-Park shopping center .
Tarm Center West
In November 1993 the Tarm Center West was opened in Frechen near Cologne . The concept was identical to that of the Bochum Tarm Center: up to 3000 guests celebrated mainly with techno , Schlager and pop on over 2000 m² . At the end of the nineties, the TV broadcaster VIVA broadcast the program VIVA Club Rotation live from Tarm Center West with presenter Daisy Dee . The resident DJs at the time were Jens O. and Barbaros. In 2007 the Tarm Center West was closed due to bankruptcy. The background was the lack of interest from the guests. Since December 2007, the Tarm Center West has been rebuilt for around half a million euros and reopened in April 2008 under the new name Juby Q. From July 2012 the Juby Q will also be closed. In September 2012 the location was reopened under the name "Vivaland".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article "Tarm Center is moving and changing", WAZ Bochum from January 25, 2003
- ↑ Commercial Register Bochum HRB2921 the "TARM Center Restaurant service limited liability company": Founded on November 15, 1985, liquidated without bankruptcy on 11 February 2004
- ↑ Cologne Commercial Register, HRB42233 of "Tarm Center West GmbH": founded in 1993, deleted on August 15, 2007 due to insolvency
Web links and sources
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 51 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 34.5 ″ E