Dülkener Schöppenmarkt

The Schoepp market in Dülken is one of the oldest and largest Krammärkte West Germany. He finds since 1847 traditionally held on Ash Wednesday.

Date, location, number of visitors

The Schoepp market takes place every Ash Wednesday after carnival 8-20 clock in the downtown area of ​​the previously independent city Dülken - now a district of Viersen - instead. Depending on the weather came in recent years from 100,000 to about 120,000 visitors from the Rhineland and the Ruhr area, but also from the neighboring Netherlands.

History, size, and today's offer

This full-day market, a meeting place for the " free traders ", takes place on Ash Wednesday since 1847. He bears the name Schoepp market because here earlier the farmers from the surrounding shopped hand tools and agricultural equipment, including " aldermen " ( blades ). Today offer retailers from across Germany, partly also from Belgium and the Netherlands, on about four kilometers sales front a variety of goods to, including, for example, kitchen appliances, spices, fan items, textiles, garden gnomes, horsemeat, car wiper, terracotta, fruits and eel. In addition, refreshment stalls and food stalls offering traditional their fish specialties. Even Barker sell their goods. The number of exhibitors who apply for Schoepp market is much higher than that of the approximately 410 existing stands. Because of the high number of visitors some of the Dülkener downtown needs to be closed to car traffic on Ash Wednesday.

Literature and Media

• Helena Siemes, Gerd Philips: Through the year. Festivals and customs in the Lower Rhine. Mercator, Duisburg, 2005. ISBN 3-87463-371-3
• The Propaganda market. See, hear, buy. In the show " at home and on the go ." WDR television. February 9, 2005
• Newspaper article of Rheinische Post and West German newspaper from the years 1998-2010