Up until more than half a century ago there was actually a cinema in the hill village. That was so long ago that only a few Altenbergers remember it. In this ugly cuboid on Teichstrasse, retail stores from the textile, food and drugstore industries were then housed. The windowless monster has been empty for about ten years.
2030
Under the motto “Altenberge 2030”, the municipality participates in the urban development program “Active city and district centers”. One of the many outcomes of this was the decision to demolish the old theater with the upstream pub on Boakenstiege. On the area that was then freed up, there will be space for the construction vehicles, which will tackle the development work to convert the Boakenstiege next year.
The commissioned demolition company Ludger Kemmermann from Hörstel is supposed to start work on January 4th. “We actually wanted to start last week. But due to the Christmas season and the extended partial lockdown, we and the demolition company agreed not to start doing it until after the holidays in the new year, ”says Thomas Mücke. “However, the first preliminary work, such as separating the building from the supply lines or gutting work, is already being carried out,” adds the head of the municipality’s central building management department. So that the demolition work does not hinder the traffic on the Boakenstiege, it is done in the rear area via Teichstraße.
Demolition company
Rainer Plettendorf from the Altenberge Heimatverein knows the cinema only from hearsay. “My parents used to watch films there when they were young. When I was born, that didn’t exist anymore, ”says the member of the local history and family research group in the Heimatverein.
Paul Hagelschur, board member of the Heimatverein, has more memories of the former cinema. The 78-year-old knows that the cinema was built by a former farmer from Hohenholte in the 1950s and had around 150 seats. “He is said to have sold his farm back then and built the movie theater with the money,” says Paul Hagelschur, looking back. The projectionist at the time had a fatal accident with his motorcycle. Apart from this cinema, there were hardly any other leisure activities in Altenberge. “As adolescents we weren’t even allowed to go to the pub and have a beer,” emphasizes the bike tour planner at the Heimatverein.
Kino
However, Paul Hagelschur remembers the cinema program, which is mostly made up of harmless homeland films. “As eager churchgoers, we were warned by the pastor from the pulpit almost every Sunday during Holy Mass not to watch any disreputable films that were not compatible with the Christian teaching of the Catholic Church,” said Paul Hagelschur.
– .
