Kellerberg (Forchheim)

The basement is a mountain 340 meters high mountain at the eastern edge of the Upper Franconian town of Forchheim.

Beer cellar

The mountain is traversed by a ramified and deeply leading to the Rhätsandstein system of beer cellars, which has been driven since the 16th century by the local brewers in the mountain and in the Forchheimer brewers store their beer. In the rock cellars prevails throughout the year a constant temperature of between six and ten degrees Celsius, ideal for storing beer. When there were no modern cooling technology, acquired the beer in this rock cellars its maturity. Today, the 10 upper and 14 lower beer cellar are only storage locations. In the basement there economies that have been set up at the entrances of storage cellar and are partially open all year, beer and Franconian specialties. Located under the shady trees Beer gardens are usually from May to September.

Annafest

Every year in July there is to July 26, the feast of Saint Anne, the ten-day Forchheimer Annafest to the Forchheimer breweries brew special strong beer. For Annafest are in or at the Forchheimer cellars every day about 30,000 seats available so that visitors can enjoy the strong beer, the diverse culinary delights and the rich music program with numerous bands from the region.

Bobby-Car racing

Since 2004, at the cellar mountain each year in September, the Forchheimer Bobby-Car races. On the steep and winding paved road between the upper and lower basements risk-loving men and women rush over 18 years with so-called Bobby -Cars down. The toy cars may not exceed the following dimensions: Overall width 350 mm, total length 600 mm, total height 550 mm (including drivers), weight 5 kg. Only original or soft wheels with Fulda- wide tires are allowed. The winning time for the 300 m long track is usually at just over 30 seconds, which is about the speed of an Olympic hundred yards runner.

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