Berger Market
The Berger Markt is a fair in the Bergen-Enkheim district of Frankfurt / Main . The fairground is located between Berger Friedhof and Nordring Street . A meadow north of it on Frohn-Grundweg is available for the cattle market on Tuesday morning . The market starts on the Saturday before and ends on the first Tuesday in September with a final fireworks display. It is organized by the Bergen-Enkheim Cultural Society in cooperation with the Frankfurt Economic Development Corporation.
From 1974 the market has an additional event point in the marquee: on Friday evening - before the market opens - the public award ceremony and handover of the keys to the literary prize " Stadtschreiber von Bergen ", with welcoming, celebratory, farewell and inaugural speeches take place. On Saturday evening, the coronation of the cider queen from Bergen-Enkheim will also be celebrated there.
history
Since when the Berger Markt has been celebrated, it can no longer be determined. Since Bergen had no market rights , yes, had not even applied for one, research is not easy here.
It is said that in 1617, before the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War , Bergen had to do without the “curb” because it was not market-friendly.
In the municipal accounting books of 1728 expenses for three markets are recorded. The main and summer market, i.e. today's Berger Markt, was held on the first Tuesday in September.
The cattle market that followed the summer market was held outside the walls. It is believed that the earliest possible date for the start of the Berger Markt would be the decades after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. At that time the name "market town" also appears.
The Berger Markt was once the event of the year, not only for Bergen and Enkheim, but also for the rural population of the southern Wetterau including the Frankfurt villages. It was a fair that was of great importance for the surrounding area as a cattle and consumer goods market.
For the Sachsenhäuser, however, the Berger Markt meant something very special, as it was even called the “Sachsehäuser Curb” there. Friedrich Stoltze writes about this in his humorous report “Der Berger Markt”: “The Sachsehäuser Kerb awwer is the aanzig curb of all Kerwe in the world, which is celebrated outside of the country: In Berge, where on the same day a famous market is held : The Berger Market. "
After the economy recovered from its decline during and after the war at the end of the 1950s, the desire arose to celebrate local festivals again. The Berger Markt could look back on an old tradition and traditionally occupied the late summer.
