Vohwinkel flea market
The Vohwinkel flea market has been held since 1971 on the last Sunday in September under the Wuppertal suspension railway in the Vohwinkel district.
history
The Vohwinkel flea market developed from a modest, improvised district event in 1971 with over 300,000 visitors to the world's largest one-day flea market with a corresponding entry in the Guinness Book of Records . In the early years, the flea market was mostly organized by the community of retailers in the district. Since 1973, the organization of the Vohwinkeler Vereine working group has been responsible for organizing this festival on a voluntary basis.
Every year, on this one Sunday, the Vohwinkel flea market is visited by around 250,000 people from all over Germany. In a few years, with appropriately good weather, the official estimates by the police and the city administration of Wuppertal even assumed up to 500,000 visitors. For organizational reasons, the Vohwinkeler Vereine working group felt compelled in the early years of the flea market to start the building phase for the flea market the evening before. This soon led to the fact that the flea market was used as a night flea market by thousands of visitors from midnight .
As the organizer of this “spectacle”, the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vohwinkeler Vereine (AGVV) was able to win over and over again prominent personalities as patrons for the event, including the Federal President Johannes Rau , the Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher , the Labor Minister Norbert Blüm , the then Bundestag President Dr. Rainer Barzel , the ambassador to Israel Rudolf Dreßler , numerous members of the Bundestag from all parties and the mayors of the city of Wuppertal.
In 1971, 1974, 1980, 1981 and 1982 the Deutsche Bundespost set up special post offices with special postmarks for the Vohwinkel flea market.
Current development after 2010
After the tragic accident at the Love Parade 2010 , the requirements for major events in general and the Vohwinkel flea market in particular were reconsidered. Shortly after the 2011 event, the AGVV board, as the responsible organizer of the flea market, announced that the responsibility as a volunteer organizer was too high for him. According to a press release, there was talk of an "approval chaos" and that the city of Wuppertal had shifted responsibility for the event to the working group. In 2012, the flea market therefore completely failed. In May 2012 the association "Vohwinkeler Flea Market eV" was founded and from 2013 it will organize a Vohwinkeler flea market again. In 2019, the flea market will fail again completely after a dispute in February 2019 in front of the Wuppertal district court about an unpaid claim of 8,800 euros, including for the setting up of traffic signs.
Individual evidence
- ^ After the approval chaos, the flea market is threatened with the Westdeutsche Zeitung from September 28, 2011
- ^ Foundation of Vohwinkeler Flea Market eV Westdeutsche Zeitung on June 12, 2012
- ↑ The flea market flop Wuppertaler Rundschau from August 12, 2019
