Merkur Spielbank Aachen, Casino in Aachen, Germany

Merkur Spielbank Aachen is a casino at the Tivoli on Krefelder Straße (B57), where it moved on 11 June 2015 from the Neues Kurhaus. It is the first casino opened in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to Merkur Spielbanken NRW GmbH. The gaming floor combines table games with slot machines and electronic roulette, the former automaten dependance having been merged into the Tivoli site.

Gambling in Aachen dates to 1764, when the city magistrate granted a licence to widow Margarete Reumont at the Maison Bouget. From 1782 the play moved to the Neue Redoute, continuing until Prussia banned it in 1854. A casino reopened in the Neues Kurhaus on 2 July 1976; on 11 June 2015 it moved to the Tivoli, and in 2021 the Gauselmann Group took ownership.

The name recalls the Reumont family: in 1764 the city magistrate granted widow Margarete Reumont a gaming concession at her Maison Bouget hotel and coffee house on Komphausbadstraße, and her son Richard moved play to the Neue Redoute after 1786. The nearby Burtscheid street name Kasinostraße still marks a former casino site.

The casino is at the Tivoli on Krefelder Straße (B57), not in the Neues Kurhaus; it moved there on 11 June 2015. The slot-machine annex was merged into this site. Visitors should bring valid identification to enter.

The casino's former premises in the Neues Kurhaus held two Andy Warhol paintings, Triple Elvis and Four Marlons, bought in 1977 and 1978 for about 389,000 euros together. Operator WestSpiel auctioned them at Christie's in New York in November 2014 for the equivalent of 120 million euros, a sale culture minister Monika Grütters criticised.