Züri Fäscht
| Züri Fäscht | |
|---|---|
| city | Zurich |
| Next event | 07/01 - 07/03/2022 |
| Last event | 2019 |
| Visitors | 2.5 million |
| Duration | 3 days |
| budget | 11.5 million Swiss francs |
| entry | Free |
| organizer | Zurich Folk Festival Association (VZV) |
| Website | zuerifaescht.ch |
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Predecessor /
former name |
* 1932–1939: Zurich Lake Night Festival
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The Zurich Festival is the city festival of Zurich weekend in July, every three years on the first in the city and around the Zurich lake basin takes place. It is by far the largest Swiss folk festival and the 6th largest folk festival in the world. The event attracts at least 2.5 million people over three days.
A total of three large fireworks will be shot up over Zurich, one on Friday and two on Saturday. The fireworks on Saturday evening are directly followed by around two million viewers on site. There are also around 1.5 million more viewers in front of the television sets at home. Which gives a total of 3.5 million viewers for a fireworks display.
Events
In addition to the half-hour fireworks on Friday and Saturday at 10:30 p.m., the festival offers numerous events, culinary delights from all over the world, various open-air stages and annual markets on Bürkliplatz and Bellevue . Various flight demonstrations are traditionally offered over the lake. In the water along the lakeshore and the Limmat, attractions are shown and competitions are held.
In 2007 and 2010, Touch the Lake , a hip-hop and house festival, took place at the same time . Every three years the Caliente coincides with the Züri Fäscht. It alone attracts 250,000 people.
A drone show took place for the first time in 2019. For this purpose 150 drones were positioned in formation flight over Lake Zurich at night and the installed lighting effects were controlled by radio control, which resulted in impressive effects.
Züri Fäscht 2004 - Feasting on the Utoquai
Patrouille Suisse at Züri Fäscht 2010
Ferris wheel 2019
Drone Show 2019
Public transport
The network of the Zürcherischer Verkehr Verbund (ZVV) is in operation day and night during the Züri Fäscht. All lines in the entire ZVV area, with the exception of shipping, operate 24 hours a day and all stops and train stations in the network area, which mainly affects the canton of Zurich and the neighboring cantons that are not affected by the closure, are served.
The Swiss Federal Railways provide several thousand special trains to and from Zurich from all over Switzerland. All domestic trains will be upgraded and extended to the maximum passenger capacity to and from Zurich main station, thus offering massively more seats.
Night trains from Zurich HB for all of Switzerland are offered.
The Stadelhofen station is at the Zuri-Fäscht next to the Zurich HB , Zurich Wiedikon and Zurich Tiefenbrunnen hub a large public transport.
SBB special trains run from between Zurich HB and Stuttgart HBF . In addition, all train units are extended.
history
It has its origins in a jubilee party in 1951, when Zurich joined the Swiss Confederation 600 years ago. In 1953 and 1956 the festival was repeated - this time for no special reason. In 1961 the city council decided against a repetition. From 1976 onwards there was a “Seenachtsfäscht” every three years and in 1986 there was also a large “Züri Fäscht” when the 2000th anniversary of Zurich was celebrated. To mark the 700th anniversary of the Swiss Confederation, a sponsoring association was founded in 1991, and a sponsoring association was founded in 1991 for the anniversary of the Swiss Confederation.
| year | Visitors |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 2.5 million |
| 2016 | 2.0 million |
| 2013 | 2.3 million |
| 2010 | 2.0 million |
| 2007 | 2.1 million |
| 2004 | 1.8 million |
| ... | |
| 1998 | > 1.5 million |
In 2019, a new visitor record was set with 2.5 million.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The Züri Fäscht. In: Züri Fäscht. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
- ↑ 10 largest folk festivals in the world. Retrieved January 26, 2020 .
- ↑ Adi Kälin: First «Züri-Fäscht» in 1951 - «A Helvetian Quatorze Juillet». In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 4, 2013, accessed July 7, 2013 .
- ^ Adi Kälin: Züri-Fäscht: Tradition despite a 30-year break . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . July 3, 2019 ( nzz.ch [accessed July 8, 2019]).
- ^ Matthias Dürst: Gang dur Alt-Züri: The "Zürifäscht". In: alt-zueri.ch. Retrieved July 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Record number of visitors: 2.5 million people at Züri-Fäscht 2019. In: Tages-Anzeiger . July 7, 2019, accessed on July 7, 2019 : “Around 2.5 million visitors flocked to the festival over the three days, the organizers write in a press release. That is a new high. The previous record dates back to 2013, when 2.3 million people attended the festival. "