Speyer pretzel festival
The Speyer pretzel festival is a folk festival in the city of Speyer that takes place every year on the second weekend in July from Thursday to Tuesday.
history
The festival was initiated by the Speyer Tourist Association to promote sales of the Speyer breweries, pretzel bakers and tobacco manufacturers and was held for the first time in 1910. Today it is one of the largest folk festivals on the Upper Rhine and attracts 300,000 guests in four days. Over time, numerous accompanying events were added: a pageant with over 100 fanfare parades, clubs, groups and floats, of which around 22,000 pretzels are thrown among the people, the “ pretzel festival” (with an international run over 8,200 m), tournaments and Competitions and fireworks at the end on Tuesday.
During the festival, strange world records were repeatedly set. In 2014, the longest Lederhosen - Dirndl - Polonaise was achieved with 2,679 participants. In 2016, a dance floor , made up of ten trucks, was moved more than 600 meters from the old gate to the cathedral and then to the fairground using only muscle power.
Since 2002, Speyer has maintained relationships with the pretzel partner town of Kirchhellen , where a pretzel festival is also celebrated every year .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pretzel festival program: What, when, where - Speyerer pretzel festival. Accessed July 15, 2018 (German).
- ^ The Pretzel Festival ( Memento from August 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Speyer Tourist Association - History ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ "Dance floor pulling" in lederhosen and dirndl. In: Radio Regenbogen. July 9, 2016, accessed June 14, 2020 .
Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 51.7 ″ N , 8 ° 26 ′ 40.9 ″ E