Easter meadow
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The Osterwiese is a folk festival that takes place every year before, during and after Easter in Bremen . With over a million visitors annually on 16 days and over 200 showmen , the event is one of the largest German folk festivals. The folk festival was held in Bremen- Gröpelingen for the first time in 1928 , then changed its location several times and has been taking place regularly on the Bremer Bürgerweide in the Findorff district since 1946 . The date of the event, which is in spring , is flexible due to the connection to the Easter date , whereby the Easter meadow is always closed on Good Friday .
history
According to the current organizer, the Bremen Markets Association and the City of Bremen, the Osterwiese is a "still 'young' festival" compared to the much older and larger Bremer Freimarkt . It took place for the first time in 1928 as the then so-called "Easter Festival" in Halmerweg in the Bremen district of Gröpelingen. In 1933 it was named "Osterwiese". During the Second World War there was no Easter meadow from 1941 to 1945. After the war, from April 12 to 22, 1946, there was the first Easter meadow on the Bremer Bürgerweide, where it has been taking place regularly since then and where the Bremen Freimarkt is also held every autumn . Before this time, the location of the spring folk festival changed several times:
- 1928: Halmerweg in Bremen-Gröpelingen
- 1929: Hohentorsplatz in Bremer Neustadt
- 1930: Neukirchstrasse / Herbststrasse sports field in Bremen-Findorff
- 1931: Grünenkamp in Bremen-Neustadt
- 1932–1934: Hohentorsplatz
- 1935–1937: Bremer Bürgerweide in Bremen-Findorff
- 1938: Hohentorsplatz
- 1939: Bürgerweide
- 1940: Bürgerweide, Danziger Freiheit (Nordstrasse) and on the Grünenkamp
The Easter meadow begins one week before Good Friday on a Friday and ends one week after Easter on a Sunday. During this time it is open daily from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m. and closed on Good Friday. On the first Friday there will be a firework display over the Bürgerweide. According to the city of Bremen, over a million visitors come to the Osterwiese every year.
Fairground
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Today's viewing area on the Bremer Bürgerweide covers over 50,000 square meters and is fed by over 200 showmen, including travel and entertainment businesses , kiddie rides , Los shacks, stalls (mostly sweets, ice cream and pastries), lunch - and public houses and tents with gastronomic supply and partly also live music.
A few stalls with consumer goods such as cooking pots, household knives or brooms and brushes , mostly on the edge of the fairground along the Theodor-Heuss-Allee , are reminiscent of the earlier tradition of the general store .
The main entrances to the Osterwiese take place u. a. Via entrances on Theodor-Heuss-Allee , which are mostly used by visitors from the north exit of Bremen Central Station and the Willy-Brandt-Platz in front of it , where there are also some stalls and snack bars during the Osterwiese. Further entrances are on Gustav-Deetjen-Allee next to the former Bremen town hall, which has been known as the ÖVB-Arena since 2011 , and on Findorffstraße / corner of Theodor-Heuss-Allee next to the Schlachthof cultural center .
Web links
- Bremer Osterwiese - Official website of the working group of the Bremen markets and the city of Bremen
- Osterwiese - information page at the official city portal of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (bremen.de)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Osterwiese . On: Official city portal of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , bremen.de; accessed on February 11, 2015.
- ↑ Bremer Osterwiese: History ( Memento of the original from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. : On: Official website of the organizer, the Bremen Markets Working Group and the City of Bremen , www.osterwiese.com; accessed on February 11, 2015.
Coordinates: 53 ° 5 ′ 11 " N , 8 ° 48 ′ 51" E