Franconian folk festival

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The Franconian Folk Festival in Crailsheim is the largest folk and local festival in the Hohenlohe-Franconia region. It takes place on four days in September and is the annual highlight of the city's annual cycle with over 200,000 visitors. The folk festival will not take place in 2020.

The amusement park of the folk festival 2005

history

The folk festival was founded in 1841 by Wilhelm I von Württemberg on the occasion of his silver coronation anniversary as an agricultural district festival to raise and promote agriculture in the Franconian-Hohenlohe area . The festival was originally sponsored by the Crailsheim Agricultural District Association, founded in 1841. In addition to all kinds of amusements, animal and fruit awards and the pageants were the main components of the festival. The folk festival has been held by the city of Crailsheim since 1901 and has been known as the Franconian folk festival ever since .

meeting

The Franconian Folk Festival traditionally takes place on a weekend in September, starting on Friday at 2:00 p.m. and ending on the following Monday at midnight. This festival Monday is always the penultimate Monday in September of the respective year and, depending on the calendar, is between September 17th and September 23rd.
This results in the following dates:

  • 178 years of the Franconian Folk Festival, 20. – 23. September 2019
  • 179 years of the Franconian Folk Festival, 18. – 21. September 2020 * canceled *
  • 180 years of the Franconian folk festival, 17. – 20. September 2021
  • 181 years of the Franconian Folk Festival, 16. – 19. September 2022
  • 182 years of the Franconian Folk Festival, 15.-18. September 2023
  • 183 years of the Franconian folk festival, 20. – 23. September 2024
  • 184 years of the Franconian Folk Festival, 19. – 22. September 2025
  • 185 years of the Franconian Folk Festival, 18. – 21. September 2026

Events

Pageants

Traditionally, a pageant takes place on Saturday and Sunday of the festival weekend, starting at 10:30 a.m. The move is organized every year by the farmers, the schools and the trade association. The design of the pageant in 2019 will be done by the students, in 2020 the trade association and in 2021 the farmers would have been responsible.

The motto of the pageants is redefined every three years. The students tend to show contributions to the medieval city history, while the trade association prefers to show today's topics in the context of the goods and services of its members. The move organized by the farmers, on the other hand, focuses more on rural life, in particular its changes in the past century.

Draisine racing

Before the pageant on Sunday, there will be a race on a circuit in the city with replica draisines , in which the winner can win a trophy, among other things. Many members of cycling clubs take part in the race.

Amusement park & ​​exhibitions

A large amusement park with approx. 85 shops (including a Ferris wheel , chain carousel and other smaller and changing large rides ) is operated on the festival weekend . After the Cannstatter Wasen , the Franconian Volksfest amusement park is the second largest temporary one in Baden-Württemberg. Three beer tents (two large ones - the longer one, in which beer from the Crailsheim private brewery Engel is served, even encloses a tree - and a smaller one) will be erected on the fairground. Connected to the amusement park are a commercial exhibition and a grocer's market with around 120 people.

Cattle awards

Previously every year, for a few years only in the years in which the farmers organize the pageant, awards for cows, horses and small cattle take place.

Changed shop closing times

The shops in Crailsheim have been open on the Sunday after the pageant, and not just since the change in shop closing legislation . However, almost all shops, as well as city administration, kindergartens and schools, are closed on the following Monday. Only a few supermarkets are open this Monday, but only in the morning.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franconian folk festival. Retrieved July 7, 2020 .