Stadttheater Düren

City Theatre Düren 1918

The theater Duren was a building that until the Second World War to the present Hoesch place in Düren, North Rhine -Westphalia, stood.

Architect of the city theater was Carl Moritz.

The manufacturer Düren, Eberhard Hoesch put 500,000 marks for the construction of a theater available. Until then, the theater has played in the halls of restaurants. Now you should create a representative structure.

Already 14 months after the foundation stone was laid on November 17, 1905, namely on January 17, 1907, the theater was opened. Built in Art Nouveau building offering 700 visitors. The stage was 20 m wide and 28 m deep. In addition to a spacious foyer belonged offices, dressing rooms, magazines, a property room and workshops for theater.

With the opposite Leopold Hoesch Museum, the Municipal Theatre was the most representative building of the city. The theater had its own company. Many well-known platforms gave guest performances in Düren. Well-known artists appeared at the City Theatre, for example, Willy Birgel, Paul Henckels, Asta Nielsen, Elly Ney and Herbert von Karajan.

In the air raid of 16 November 1944 the theater was destroyed. Only the basement and the facade remained. After the war, a restaurant was set up in the basement. In March 1952, the ruins were completely demolished. With the stones the wall of the cemetery was built in the Cologne road.

After the war, the theater began again, in the ballroom of the Provinzialanstalten, now LVR Clinic Düren, on 25 April 1946. According to a long-time interlude in the auditorium of Stiftisches Gymnasium City Theatre since 30 November 1991 in the house of the city resident.