Saarfest
Saarfest is a three-day folk festival on the Saar , directly opposite the Völklinger Hütte World Heritage Site . It is the largest festival in the city of Völklingen . Every year tens of thousands of visitors from all over Saarland and neighboring France visit the event at the ship landing stage and the Saar promenade under the motto Summer, Saar and Leisure .
Various activities will take place during the days of the event: dragon boat races (city championship, Saarland school championships), jet boat demonstrations, boat tours, introductory diving, children's entertainment. Furthermore, a stage and music program is offered with a radio station from Saarland.
The Saarfest was originally not intended as a regular folk festival, but was to take place in 2002 as a one-time inauguration party for the new ship landing stage / Saar-Promenade Völklingen (construction period 1999-2001). The event took place annually until 2015. After a suspension in 2016, the event is now only scheduled every two years due to financial bottlenecks in the city treasury.
The organizer is the Society for Economic Development, Innovation and City Marketing (GWIS) Völklingen mbH with the support of the City of Völklingen, the IG Wehrden eV and the Kanuclub Völklingen eV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on Veranstaltungen-in-deutschland.de http://www.veranstaltungen-in-deutschland.de/Veranstaltung.asp?IVE=1859351
- ↑ Info from the city of Saarbrücken Archived copy ( memento of the original from June 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Andreas Hell: Lorig fails at the city council committee: It remains with the decision for the two-year cycle . In: Völklingen in transition . Völklingen January 23, 2016 ( voelklingen-im-wandel.de [accessed June 14, 2017]).
