Pützchen's market
Pützchens market is a traditional carnival (origins in 1367), since the beginning of the 18th century mainly to market meadows of today Bonn belonging Pützchen-Bechlinghoven takes place always on the second weekend in September.
The visitor record was set with around 1.4 million people in 2018. Pützchens Markt is not the largest folk festival in the Rhineland , but it is the "highest-selling 5-day market in Germany".
construction
Above all, the large rides such as carousels , ghost trains , bumper cars and the like find their place in the meadows on the former edge of the village of Pützchen. The smaller shops such as shooting galleries , beer stands and snack bars still take possession of the historic town center of Pützchen along Marktstrasse. The soccer field, which belongs to the market meadows, is today the location of the Pluutenmarkt , which took place in the Middle Ages around the Pützchen village church of St. Adelheid . Since the rides got bigger and bigger, it has also been used for years as a location for the main attractions of the fair, the large roller coaster or the wild water ride.
Various activities at Pützchen's market have a solid tradition: The fair opens on Friday at 3:00 pm when the mayor's keg tapping in the “Bavaria tent”. The catholic festival service for the showmen begins on Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. On Monday morning, these children from the orphanages in the region invite you to free rides. On Tuesdays, the showmen's band moves across the square; in the evening at 10:00 p.m. the fair ends with a large fireworks display.
During the event, there is space for the showmen's trucks on the former fields around the integrated comprehensive school in Bonn-Beuel . In addition, the historic center of Pützchen is closed to car traffic. The old Pützchen primary school, the market school on the main axis of the Marktwiesen, will be occupied by the technical management of the aid organizations for the co-ordination of all operations on the fairground as well as the public order office of the city of Bonn.
Duration
After the former city of Beuel was incorporated into Bonn in 1969 , the four-day fair (Saturday to Tuesday) was extended to five days without curfew (Friday to Tuesday). In 2010, due to the introduction of a curfew, the fair was extended to six days (Thursday to Tuesday) on a trial basis, but the decision was revised in December 2012 so that the fair has lasted five days again since 2013. The curfew varies on the different days between midnight and 3 a.m.
history
Pützchens Markt emerged from the pilgrimage to the Adelheidis fountain . In the course of a procession on the lands of the Vilich Abbey , whose abbess Adelheid von Vilich was, the later canonized had her abbess staff pushed into the ground and created a spring (Rhenish Pütz or Pützchen ). Since Adelheid had also taken care of the poor and sick, soon after her death they made a pilgrimage to her grave and the spring, where numerous miracles are said to have occurred.
Since the pilgrims had to be fed, innkeepers, merchants and jugglers came together who, in addition to the pilgrimage, created a medieval market, first mentioned in a document around 1367. Initially, the market was limited to trading in junk, old clothes (Rhenish pluute ) and household goods, the pluute market , which over the centuries, especially since the beginning of the 18th century, has developed into a modern fair.
Until 1830 the market takes place on September 8th (Mary's Birth), then it is separated from the pilgrimage and moved to the 2nd Sunday of September.
In 2017 the 650th edition of Pützchens Markt took place with a special anniversary program. Among other things, the Bläck Fööss and the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn took to the stage in the Bayern tent. For the first time, on the occasion of the anniversary, the folk festival was accompanied by a daily broadcast on the Internet ("PüMa Daily"), in which showmen, organizers and the police had their say. The show was there again in 2018 and 2019. In the anniversary year, Pützchen's market was visited by around 1.2 million visitors. The anniversary was overshadowed by the death of a worker who had a fatal accident while dismantling the ferris wheel.
traffic
The Pützchens Markt stop is on the Bonn-Beuel – Hangelar railway line and is served by special trains of the Rhein-Sieg Railway during the festive season . Are used MAN railcars in simple traction that oscillate between Beuel and Hangelar and Pützchen. In addition, numerous repeater buses run by Stadtwerke Bonn from / to Bonn Central Station.
Web links
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://www.rundschau-online.de/bonn/ab-2013-puetzchens-markt-nur-an-fuenf-tagen,15185502,21500772.html
- ↑ Carl Jakob Bachem: Beueler Chronik . In: Studies on the local history of the Bonn-Beuel district . No. 26 . Bonn 1989, ISBN 3-922832-06-7 (192 pages).
- ^ [2] General-Anzeiger Bonn, September 7, 2017
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Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 38.4 " N , 7 ° 9 ′ 20.2" E