Freilichtbühne Mülheim An Der Ruhr
The Freilichtbühne Mülheim an der Ruhr (Mülheim, Mülheim an der Ruhr Open-Air Theatre) is an open-air amphitheatre in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, built in 1936 as a Nazi Thingspiele, Thingplatz. It is the most important open-air theatre in the Rhine-Ruhr region and with 2,000 seats, one of the largest in Germany. Location The theatre is only a few hundred metres from the former centre of Mülheim, now known as the ''Kirchenhügel'' (church hill). It was constructed in a former quarry across the street from the old city cemetery, and is within a city park. It has both a large and a small stage. History Construction, use in the Third Reich In the early 1930s, the parks director of Mülheim, Fritz Keßler, was seeking a way to make the former quarry into a park instead of letting it laps into a dump. As a result of the Great Depression, there was not enough money to construct the park until the Volunteer Labour Service made it an unemployment relief project, which reduced the ...
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