Gredinger traditional costume market
The Gredinger Trachtenmarkt is a German fair for traditional costumes and regional clothing culture. It takes place on the first weekend in September on the market square of Greding in the Altmühltal . Greding is located in the "heart of Bavaria" (directly on the federal motorway 9 from Munich to Nuremberg , 36 km north of Ingolstadt ) and is the south-easternmost municipality in the Central Franconian administrative district . In the south the city borders on Upper Bavaria and in the east on the Upper Palatinate . The organizers of the traditional costume market are the city of Greding, the Bavarian State Association for Home Care eV and the Middle Franconia district .
Exhibitor and offer
Around 100 exhibitors from Germany and neighboring countries come to the fair every year . Their offer includes, among other things:
- Costumes
- Dirndl , lederhosen , jackets , Janker / Trachtenjanker , blouses , shirts , etc. Kotzen
- Accessories for making traditional costumes
- accessories
- Hats , caps , caps , belts also with quill embroidery , chamois beard , jewelry , shoes , socks and much more.
- Demonstrations and courses in craft techniques
- Lace-making (eg. As tatting spike), embroidery (z. B. White embroidery ), quill embroidery, felting , Klosterarbeiten, blueprint and other textile printing , weaving , weaving , spinning , pleating , Gamsbartbinden and much more.
- Advice and information
- Trachten advisors from the Bavarian districts, the German and Bavarian Trachtenverband as well as other associations and institutions provide information about regional costumes using historical images, offer sewing patterns and handicrafts or present new models for regional costumes.
- Presentations of exhibitions, traditional costumes on stage with folk music and folk dance .
- Supporting program
- Regional specialties in the taverns on the market, Franconian bratwurst and musical entertainment on the market square. "Rumlumpen" - musicians move through the inns on the market square in the evening to entertain the guests.
history
The Gredinger Trachtenmarkt first took place in 1994. Since 1998 guest groups from regions of Europe have presented the traditional costumes of their homeland:
- 1998: Limousin / France
- 1999: South Tyrol
- 2000: Czech Republic
- 2001: Finland
- 2002: Northern Germany
- 2003: Region around Gdansk
- 2004: Czech Republic
- 2005: Slovenia
- 2006: Egerland
- 2007: Romania
- 2008: Alsace
- 2009: Bregenz Forest
- 2010: Mark Brandenburg
- 2011: Spain
- 2012: France
- 2013: Franconian Turks from Nuremberg
- 2014: Ore Mountains
- 2015: South Tyrol and Limousin
- 2016: Andalusia
- 2017: Thuringia
- 2018: Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2019: Lower Saxony
- 2020 will be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Every year since 2007 the market has been devoting itself to a special focus topic:
- 2007: wedding
- 2008: folk festival
- 2009: folds , ruffles, pleats
- 2010: big flowers and small squares
- 2011: hook, button, fiddle
- 2012: everyday costume
- 2013: great
- 2014: accessories
- 2015: Looked under the skirt
- 2016: traditional costume renewal
- 2017: Old clothes, in good hands
- 2018: Garment journey through the ages ( Kulturverband Stecak )
- 2019: costume and dance
- 2020 will be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The Gredinger Trachtenmarkt is a supraregional point of contact, a stock exchange and a shopping opportunity for everyone who is interested in traditional costumes, which they want to get to know, research, make or buy themselves. It currently offers the best overview of current costume maintenance as well as its basics and approaches. Special craft techniques can be learned or deepened in courses and courses.
literature
- Martin Wölzmüller: Costumes - Customs - Language. Current care and future opportunities . In: Wolfgang Pledl (Red.): Experience home, preserve, create anew. Culture as an inheritance and a mission. 100 Years of the Bavarian State Association for Home Care eV BLVH, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-931754-25-1 , pp. 265-274.
- Martin Wölzmüller: Traditional costumes. Lively, individual and attractive. Big crowds and a lot of information at the 1st Gredinger Trachtenmarkt . In: More beautiful home. Vol. 83 (1994), pp. 178-179, ISSN 0177-4492 .
Web links
- Website of the Bavarian State Association for Home Care eV
- Program 18th Gredinger Trachtenmarkt 2011
- Pictures and information about the Gredinger Trachtenmarkt
Individual evidence
- ↑ 25th Gredinger Trachtenmarkt - Events - City of Greding. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 2, 2018 ; accessed on September 2, 2018 . 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.
