Annafest

The Forchheimer Anna festival takes place annually to celebrate the name of St. Anne on July 26 at the cellar mountain in the Upper Franconian town of Forchheim. During the ten -day festival operation has the Annafest around 500,000 visitors.

History of the Forchheimer Anna Fest

In 1516 a chapel was consecrated in the small town Unterweiler stream near Forchheim of St. Anne. Thither took the Forchheimer a small pilgrimage. On the way back the pilgrims rest in the cellar made ​​forest in order to strengthen themselves in the local beer cellars with the stored beer. The relatives of the pilgrims who stayed home went out to meet them, and brought food and drink with.

When the Forchheimer shooting club in 1840 his head shooting moved from Schiessanger at the Regnitz in the basement Forest, Anna was hard.

The local breweries Hebendanz, Griffin, Eichhorn and Neder brew specially for this celebration a stout, Annafest beer that is stored in the beer cellars in the basement mountain several weeks before festivities begin. For the first time in 2011 and the resident was brewing in the nearby village Haller brewery Rittmayer a special Annafest beer, which came to serving on the White Dove cellar.

Data

• 2006: July 22 -31. July
• 2007: July 21 - 30th July
• 2008: July 26 fourth August
• 2009: July 25 - 3rd August
• 2010: July 24 -2. August
• 2011 23 July-1. August
• 2012: July 21 - 30th July
• 2013: July 20 - 29th July
• 2014: July 25 - 4th August