Meadows
With Wiesn ("meadow") colloquially and dialectically (mostly Bavarian ) the following folk festivals are meant:
- the Oktoberfest on the Theresienwiese in Munich
- the Rosenheim autumn festival on the Loreto meadow
- the Wiener Wiesn-Fest on the Kaiserwiese in the Vienna Prater
Word origin and spelling
Wiesn is Bavarian and means meadow . According to the current spelling, the frequently used apostrophe Wies'n is not used.
Web links
- Meadow, meadows, Wies'n or Wiesn? In: Oktoberfest.de