Serenade of Lights

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Serenade of Lights
Serenade of Lights

The light serenade is the introduction to the oath weekend in Ulm . It was first in 1967 by the Society of Friends Danube organizes and finds since then except for the years 1981, 1987 and 2020 (failure due COVID-19-pandemic ) on the Saturday before Oath instead.

The light serenade is a light show on water. When it gets dark, the ordinary ships , the " Ulmer Schachteln ", place several thousand tea lights on the surface of the Danube . On the occasion of the 50th Serenade of Lights, 20,000 lights were exposed in 2018, 5,000–6,000 lights more than in the previous year.

Around 160 volunteers are already equipping the floating lights while they are traveling up the river and stacking them below the deck of the ordinary ships. At the level of the Fischerplätzle they are then lit by hand around 9:30 p.m. and brought out onto the water. Four volunteers per group light the candles with a lighter , with matches or with a fidibus , two other volunteers put out the lights on the Danube. After about 30 minutes, all lights are out.

Since the flow speed of the Danube is usually quite low at this point, you can overtake the lights floating on the Danube on the riverside paths. The lights are accompanied by boats from which fireworks are shot. This is followed by a fireworks display , after which the oath weekend will be continued at parties and street festivals 'in and around Ulm' and on the Bavarian Danube side in Neu-Ulm .

The majority of the floating lights are fished out of the water by the spectators, so that only a small part ends up in the flotsam rake of the Böfinger Halde power station downstream . For environmental reasons, the Danube friends are considering switching to tea lights with a pressed wood cover instead of aluminum from 2019.

More Ulm traditions on the oath weekend

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amrei Groß: What is important: Insider tips for the light serenade. In: SÜDWEST PRESSE. July 20, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Tobias Knaack: Serenade of Lights in Ulm: 20,000 lights and fireworks. In: SÜDWEST PRESSE. July 22, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Verena Schühly: The Serenade of Lights and what's behind it. In: SÜDWEST PRESSE. July 20, 2018, accessed July 23, 2018 .