Mannheim mess
Mannheimer Mess is a folk festival in Mannheim . It takes place twice a year, in spring (April / May) and in autumn (September / October), for two weeks each. With around 300,000 visitors, the Mannheimer Mess is one of the largest folk festivals in the Rhine-Neckar region .
The fair goes back to the granting of market privileges to the city of Mannheim by Count Palatine Johann II von Zweibrücken in 1613. The dates for two annual markets were then set on May 1st and September 22nd. In 1876, the actual market, from which the Maimarkt developed from then on , was separated from the show booths that moved from the city center to the other side of the Neckar to what is now the Old Messplatz in the Neckar city . For reasons of space, the fair was relocated a little up the Neckar at the end of the 1930s to the so-called White Sand between the (old) fire station and the Friedrich-Ebert-Brücke . In the 1960s, the company moved to the specially created Neue Meßplatz in the northern Neckar city.
literature
- Guido Walz (Red.): The Brockhaus Mannheim. 400 years of the city of squares - The Lexicon . Bibliographisches Institut & FA Brockhaus, Mannheim 2006, ISBN 3-7653-0181-7 .
- Claudia Schmid: Mannheim death mass. A thriller around the popular Mannheimer Volksfest. Gmeiner Verlag, Messkirch 2013, ISBN 978-3839214589 .