Nuremberg folk festival
The Nürnberger Volksfest is a folk festival that takes place twice a year as the Nuremberg Spring Festival and the Nuremberg Autumn Festival at Dutzendteich in Nuremberg .
history
The first fair in Nuremberg took place in autumn 1826 in honor of the Bavarian King Ludwig I. instead. It was organized on the Peterheide in Gleißhammer . In addition to a large pageant and various games such as sack and egg running, fireworks were already part of the program for the first edition . On the Peterheide, which was renamed Ludwigsfeld in 1833, the folk festival took place annually from that year until 1842.
In 1853 a folk festival was held again on Ludwigsfeld. When King Maximilian II visited Nuremberg in 1855 , the festival took place for the first time on the grounds of today's city park , which was renamed from Judenbühl to Maxfeld on this occasion. There was no folk festival for sixteen years before the tradition was resumed in 1872. Coupled with the Sedan Day , this first took place on the Maxfeld , from 1885 on the Plärrer and from 1887 again on the Ludwigsfeld. In 1898 the first film screening took place in Nuremberg as part of the folk festival. The attractions also included performances by the choral societies or gymnasts , balloon rides and parachute jumps .
The festival was canceled during the First World War . From 1919 it was carried out on the Deutschherrnwiese on the Pegnitz . This year, the folk festival took place for the first time not only in autumn, but also in spring with a second edition. In 1925, the folk festival was moved to Fürther Strasse on an area where the Quelle mail-order company later built its premises. In 1940 and 1941 the folk festival took place again on the Deutschherrnwiese before it was stopped due to the war.
The festival was resumed immediately after the end of the Second World War . It took place again from 1947 to 1952 on the premises on Fürther Straße before it was carried out for the first time in 1953 on what is now the event site on Dutzendteich.
Terrain and traffic
The Nuremberg Volksfestplatz is located in the southeast of the city and was part of the former Nazi party rally grounds at the Nuremberg Dutzendteich. To the northeast of the Volksfestplatz is the congress hall with the Documentation Center of the Nazi Party Rally Grounds , and to the southeast is Grosse Strasse . The former parade street serves as a large parking lot for the folk festival during festival times.
The Volksfestplatz has a size of 100,000 square meters, on which a 1,114 meter long tour through the companies of the showmen and the festival tents was laid out for the Spring Festival 2007.
Local public transport makes the fairground accessible via trams and buses with numerous special trips. On the occasion of the festival, trams and buses are flagged with the German flag and the Franconian flag, the Franconian rake .
Economical meaning
The Nuremberg fair lasts 16 (spring) and 17 days (autumn). The number of visitors was 1.6 million in autumn 2007, just as high as in autumn 2010. According to the organizers, 1.9 million guests came to the 2010 Spring Festival. At the Spring Festival 2007 around 2,000 people found employment in 169 companies. With around 2.3 million visitors, the 2019 Spring Festival again set a new visitor record after 2018.
Attractions and offers
In spring 2007 there were two large festival tents and four other tent restaurants at the Nuremberg fair. Another 66 snacks, bars and ice cream sales were responsible for the culinary supply. 19 rides, including the Olympia Looping , as well as 16 for children, and 7 ghost trains or running shops were available. In addition, the visitors were able to enjoy themselves at 12 shooting galleries and 36 booths with tickets, other games of chance and games of skill. Two large fireworks are also part of the program of the Nuremberg folk festival.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Charlotte Bühl , Herbert Maas: Volksfest . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).
- ↑ a b c South German Association of Traveling Showmen and Traders e. V .: Data and facts about the Nuremberg Spring Festival 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 13 kB) . Website of the Nuremberg Volksfest (January 6, 2008)
- ^ South German Association of Traveling Showmen and Traders V .: 1.6 million visitors ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Nuremberg Volksfest (January 6, 2008)
- ↑ Positive balance despite the capricious weather ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Nuremberg Volksfest (September 19, 2010)
- ↑ Almost two million visitors to the Spring Festival ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Nuremberg Volksfest (September 19, 2010)
- ↑ Over two million visitors came to the Spring Festival on nordbayern.de, May 12, 2019, accessed on May 13, 2019
