Volksfest

Folk festivals are anchored in the traditions typical regional festivals which often have a long tradition. Often they relate to church festivals or on the early spring or autumn and are celebrated differently in small villages and in cities in part. Some have evolved over the centuries from a fair. This tradition is linked to the location of many festivals on the edge of the fairground flea market.

Description

In contrast to city festivals and other major events, the appearance of a folk festival is marked by the sometimes huge rides. They are, as well as the many other attractions - from the hotdog stand on the marquees - operated by the showmen. Large festivals are attended by up to 100,000 people per day, but exact figures are hard to come by, since the area of a folk festival usually is freely accessible and each Schaustellerbetrieb represented at the festival is a separate entity.

In most cities find festivals to a private place, the fairground instead. But there are also festivals that take place in the city center and resemble more town festivals. Depending on the organizational form is also called street parties, if, for example, the adjacent shops and companies together will find a shopping street to do so.

Folk festivals are often opened by the tapping of a beer keg by a high local politicians of the community in which takes place the festival.

While in Germany a festival is often composed of rides and booths of many different showman of a so-called " master space ", partly entire hard courts of a single Showman be fitted in other countries. Anders make himself popular festivals in small towns, municipalities or districts ( district festival ) on the other hand - there often called fair or notch - in which the focus is not so much the rides than in the ceremonial activities. There, by any visitor ( often the only beer tent ) required a one-time entrance fee, in its turn him inside a live band is presented as well as all kinds of alcoholic beverages, preferably beer. Due to the popular nature of such an event, the music on offer is limited mostly to German pop and folk songs.

In rural areas, has a visit to the own or the fairs of the neighboring villages / communities have a long tradition. So a village fair by the local fraternity is aligned, which is then visited by the Fraternities nearby settlements. In return, the Organising in sunbeds fraternity moves to the festivals of others.

In general, for a larger festival (often in a city ), admission is free and the attractions are to be paid separately. However, there are exceptions such as the FunFair Boulevard in the Netherlands, in which a small admission fee is to be paid, which can then be partially redeemed as a minimum turnover again.

In the Netherlands, a price system is common in the organizer sets a very low maximum price for the attractions. Since this part well below the usual prices of the rides, the travel times are then reduced under certain circumstances for reasons of cost or the showman subsidized by the organizer. At the largest fair of the Netherlands, the Tilburgse Kermis, prices will, however, be subject to the current demand, so that is lured with low congestion with a low price and the prices will be increased at higher volumes.

List of German folk festivals

In the following list are some of the biggest ( regularly at least 1 million visitors) and Germany's most famous folk festivals - sorted by number of visitors - listed (all figures are about data).

Note: The numbers of visitors are exposed to weather conditions, strong fluctuations. It must also be noted that the comparability of the figures is problematic, since the procedure is different according to the count or estimation methods.

List of Austrian folk festivals

In the following list some of the largest and most famous Austrian folk festivals are listed below:

List of Swiss folk festivals

In the following list some of the largest and most famous Swiss folk festivals are listed below:

List of Luxembourg festivals

The oldest folk festivals

Model

There are modellers recreate the popular festivals in the model. Here also the rides as equipped with light effects function models are simulated. From many rides there are functional models as a kit on the market,