Lichtburg, Movie theater in Essen, Germany.

The Lichtburg is a cinema on Burgplatz in Essen, built from 1928 to designs by city building officer Ernst Bode, with interiors by Heydkamp and Bucerius after plans by Lothar Kaminski. Its main auditorium holds 1,250 seats, making it Germany's largest cinema hall; a 20-metre dome once spanned the room. The pale stone facade with its flat, slightly overhanging roof and corner glazing survives from the original building, and a second 150-seat hall named after the actor Sabu occupies the basement.

The Lichtburg opened on 18 October 1928, built to plans by city building officer Ernst Bode with interiors by Heydkamp and Bucerius under a 20-metre dome. Its foyer was gutted in the Allied bombing of Essen on 5 March 1943, but the facade survived; the auditorium was rebuilt in early-1950s style and reopened on 23 March 1950 with 1,700 seats.

The venue regularly schedules film premieres and festivals, attracting international filmmakers and contributing to Germany's cinema culture.

The cinema stands on Burgplatz in Essen's city centre, a short walk from the main railway station and reachable by tram and bus. The main hall and the 150-seat Sabu cinema in the basement are both wheelchair accessible. The entrance is on the corner beneath the vertical LICHTBURG sign, where the outdoor seating stands.

The Wurlitzer cinema organ installed for the 1928 opening cost 150,000 Reichsmark and was the largest yet placed in a European cinema; it could imitate traffic noise and thunder. It arrived by ship at Cuxhaven on the Albert Ballin and reached Essen by rail on 6 October 1928.