Fog Cave Festival

The Nebelhöhlenfest is a folk festival that is celebrated every year on Whit Monday in front of the Nebelhöhle near Genkingen in Baden-Württemberg .

The origin of the festival lies in the solemn visit of Elector Friedrich I of Württemberg, who later became King Friedrich I, with a visit to the illuminated cave in 1803.

In 1832, the festival caused a sensation when - two weeks after the Hambach Festival - it was used by students and 'civil rights activists' for allegedly oppositional rallies of unknown content.

Today the Nebelhöhlenfest is a local folk festival.

Individual evidence

↑ Rüdiger Hachtmann: Reviews from the archive for social history online - Stadtarchiv Reutlingen / Reutlinger Geschichtsverein, Reutlingen in the revolutionary years 1848/49 (= Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series, Volume 38, 1999), Reutlingen 2000, 647 p. Accessed on January 25 2013 (February 2002 on Archives for Social History ).

48.41694 9.22093Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 1 ″ N , 9 ° 13 ′ 15.3 ″ E

[1] Rüdiger Hachtmann: Reviews from the archive for social history online - Stadtarchiv Reutlingen / Reutlinger Geschichtsverein, Reutlingen in the revolutionary years 1848/49 (= Reutlinger Geschichtsblätter, New Series, Volume 38, 1999), Reutlingen 2000, 647 p. Accessed on January 25 2013 (February 2002 on Archives for Social History ).