Hessentag 1964

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The Hessentag 1964 was the 4th Hessentag . It took place in Kassel from July 3rd to 5th, 1964 , and for the first time a large city hosted the Hessentag. It wasn't until 2013 that the second Hessentag took place in the north Hessian metropolis. The state festival was opened by the Hessian Prime Minister Georg August Zinn and the Lord Mayor of Kassel Karl Branner . A total of 430,000 visitors were recorded, 200,000 of them at the pageant and 50,000 in the Auestadion , the largest number of spectators ever registered in the Kassel sports stadium. At the same time, documenta III and the exhibition “Rembrandt and his Circle” in the Hessian State Museum took place in Kassel .

Events

The highlights were the exhibitions "700 Years of Hesse" and "A City is Being Rebuilt", a football tournament in front of 6,000 spectators on the Hessenkampfbahn in Karlsaue , in which North Hesse was defeated 4: 1 by South Hesse, and an international music festival of the four nations USA , Belgium, France and the Federal Republic of Germany in the Kassel Auestadion. With a mass twist of 350 members of the Federal Border Guard , the word "Hessentag" was formed. In the Stadthalle Kassel a place diols fashion show in Kassel textile company spun instead. The seven-kilometer parade lasted three and a half hours. 1500 musicians and 2000 members of traditional costume groups as well as 50 motif wagons and 45 bands, minstrels and fanfares took part in this.

literature

  • Hans Sarkowicz: The big festival of the Hessians - The history of the 50 Hessentage since 1961 . Ed .: Roland Koch. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-7973-1232-7 .
  • Hessentag 2013: Review of the Hessentag in Kassel 1964, pp. 12–13. Special supplement to the HNA from June 7, 2013.

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