Freakstock

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Praise at the main seminar on the main stage of Freakstock 2004

The Freakstock is a Christian music festival . It is "Europe's largest alternative Jesus festival". The annual festival is organized by the Jesus Freaks , a Christian free church community. First held in Wiesbaden in 1995 , it took place between 1997 and 2008 in Gotha ( Thuringia ) on the Boxberg racecourse . For 2015 and 2016 the Freakstock moved to the Allstedt airfield , a former military airfield of the aviation forces of the western group of the Soviet armed forces near Allstedt in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in the southwest of Saxony-Anhalt . In August 2018, the festival took place for the first time in Kierspe Rönsahl at Gut Haarbecke and opened its doors there again in August 2019.

history

The first idea of ​​the Freakstock is said to have come up on March 24, 1992. The first implementation of the Freakstock took place in November 1995 in Wiesbaden with around 400 participants. At that time it still had the subtitle "The Jesus Freaks Festival". The meeting room of a church in Wiesbaden, where the Jesus Freaks Mainz met at the time, served as the venue. At this Freakstock, the idea came up to hold the festival every six months, but this was never implemented.

A year later, the festival concept switched to an open air . The venue was a soccer field in Neudrossenfeld , near Bayreuth . Around 800 visitors came.

In 1997 it moved to the Boxberg in Gotha . In 1998 the subtitle was renamed from "Jesus Freaks Festival" to "Jesus Festival".

In 2004 there was an increase to over 7,000 participants who came to the Freakstock on Boxberg. In the following year, the festival achieved a record attendance of almost 8,000 visitors, which was never reached again. Since then, the number of visitors has declined sharply in some cases and has now leveled off at around 3000 (information provided by the organizers). With 60 bands on a total of 5 stages, Freakstock was one of the largest Christian festivals in Europe.

From 2009 to 2014 the Freakstock took place on a former barracks site in Borgentreich , which belongs to the Coptic Orthodox Church .

In 2015 and 2016 the Freakstock took place for the first time on the airfield in Allstedt .

In January 2017 it was announced that the festival would not take place in 2017.

In 2018, the Freakstock was held for the first time at Gut Haarbecke in Kierspe- Rönsahl, where it also took place the following year.

In 2020, due to the corona pandemic in Germany , the event will not take place as a festival on site, but there will be a live stream with music on two days under the title Freakstock Home Edition .

No. date place theme Number of visitors
1 November 1995 Wiesbaden The Father's Love 400
2 August 1996 Neudrossenfeld Complete the run 800
3 August 1997 Gotha Back to first love 1,600
4th August 1998 Heartcore 2,500
5 August 1999 Because I am not ashamed of the gospel 3,000
6th ? 2000 God never makes mistakes 3,500
7th ? 2001 Thank you Jesus for everything, it's all about you! GoD is in control. 3,800
8th August 1st to 4th, 2002 Jesus, you are the answer for my life, I need you everyday! 4,600
9 July 30th to August 3rd, 2003 King Jesus 5,600
10 July 28 to August 1, 2004 Happy Birthday Freakstock. Thank you Jesus! 7,100
11 4th to 7th August 2005 In love with Jesus 8,400
12 3rd to 6th August 2006 You are not alone 5,500
13 July 26-29, 2007 REBOOT 2,600
14th July 30th to August 3rd, 2008 Jesus. 2,900
15th July 29th to August 2nd, 2009 Borgentreich Hand on heart 3,256
16 July 28 to August 1, 2010 Legs in hand 3,000
17th 3rd to 7th August 2011 Course to Jesus 3,000
18th August 1st to 5th, 2012 of sky-stormers and break pilots 3,000-3,600
19th July 31 to August 4, 2013 Change (d) - courage to change 3,200 -3,700
20th August 6-10, 2014 New territory 3,252
21st July 29th to August 2nd, 2015 Allstedt New Ground, One Crowd, No Borders 3,000-3,200
22nd July 27 to 31, 2016 Welcome home 3,100
- 2017 canceled in January 2017
23 2nd to 5th August 2018 Kierspe-Rönsahl Succession I 2,000
24 August 1st to 4th, 2019 ? 2,300
25th July 31st to August 1st (only online)

procedure

Freakstock starts on Wednesdays before the first weekend in August and closes the following Sunday.

At lunchtime, there are workshops on various faith topics at the Freakstock. In the afternoon there is the so-called main seminar , which largely consists of praise and a sermon. In the evening all kinds of music styles are played live on several stages. In between there are always praise and concerts on different stages. Various DJs play music until 4:00 a.m.

Web links

Media coverage

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Backstage - Freakstock. (No longer available online.) In: arte.tv. December 7, 2006, archived from the original on December 24, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  2. ↑ Second Freakstock Festival at Gut Haarbecke. August 5, 2019, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c See Mirko S.'s statement in: Der Kranke Bote , No. 3, June / July 2007
  4. ↑ Maike Jansen: Jesus Christ Superstar. In: welt.de . August 2, 2009, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  5. ↑ "Jesus Freaks" celebrate on new land . idea.de, August 2, 2015.
  6. ↑ a b Freakstock goes sabbatical. In: jesusfreaks.de. January 17, 2017, accessed May 13, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Freakstock - the place to be! - Freakstock. Retrieved on June 4, 2018 (German).
  8. ^ Freakstock — The Jesus Festival. Freakstock, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Felsi Heavy: Angeeckt: From the Viennese punks to the Goth clubs of Sao Paulo . 2nd Edition. tredition, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7345-2973-3 , chap. 17. Freakstock ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  10. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Betina Kammer et al .: 25 years of Jesus Freaks. Accompanying volume for the exhibition. (PDF; 2,3MB) Jesus Freaks, July 2016, accessed on May 14, 2019 .
  11. ^ Festival magazine Freakstock Allgemeine Zeitung , August 2, 2009
  12. ↑ Freakstock: Unconventional "Course on Jesus". (No longer available online.) In: idealisten.net. August 8, 2011, archived from the original on December 24, 2014 ; Retrieved December 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.idealisten.net
  13. ↑ UK> Kultur> aktuell> More than 3000 at the festival of the »Jesus Freaks«. In: Unserkirche.de. August 5, 2012, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  14. ↑ Colorful, loud, pious: 3,200 visitors to the "Freakstock" festival. In: jesus.de. August 4, 2013, accessed December 24, 2014 .
  15. ↑ A day in the playground . ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) jesusfreaks.de, August 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jesusfreaks.de
  16. ↑ "Jesus Freaks" celebrate on new land . idea.de, August 2, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Sabbatical": Freakstock 2017 canceled. In: jesus.de. January 17, 2017, accessed May 14, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Swanhild Zacharias: Freakstock in the Sauerland was "a complete success". In: pro-medienmagazin.de. August 8, 2018, accessed May 11, 2019 .
  19. ↑ 2,300 visitors came to the Freakstock Festival in Kierspe. In: idea.de. idea, August 9, 2019, accessed August 20, 2019 .
  20. ↑ We want to have a good time with Jesus . ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) nw-news.de
  21. ↑ Freakstock ends harmoniously . ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) netzeitung.de