Pole marquee
A marquee, beer tent is a tent or easily demountable tent-like building, where, for example, at folk festivals and similar events, a restaurant with entertainment is housed and / or in the held a party. Depending on the type of the event the boarding of a marquee can cost entry or be free. As a rule, however, no admission fee is charged.
Description
Smaller tents are covered with canvas, while larger tents have walls made of plywood.
Often you can tell when violent events that it trickles in a marquee, although it is not raining outside. This is due to moisture that condenses on the cool ceiling and loosens when shocks.
Particularly well known are beer tents in Baden- Württemberg, Bavaria, Westphalia and in Austria. There, the annual beer tent is one of the most important events of a village. A special ceremony in a beer tent is the keg tapping at the opening of a folk festival, which at many folk festivals has a long tradition.
The beer tent is in the political debate a synonym for a group of uneducated people. By means of a populist " beer tent speech " can be these most heat for right issues. Therefore, the accusation of holding a beer tent speech, also a common verbal attack on a speaker of a different political party.
Some tents have a separate compartment for the toilets. The visitor must often leave the tent for the performance of his necessities, especially in smaller marquees. In these cases, the corresponding facilities are housed in a toilet car or toilet container. For paid events occurs a stamp that indicates to the operator or the bouncer that he has already paid his entrance, the guest receives similar to a disco. Increasingly, especially beer tents of major events (eg Oktoberfest ) for youth play a major role. The music is particularly evenings and weekends often adapted for young visitors.
Marquees are mostly at ground level. In larger marquees there are occasionally a gallery. With a gallery but security problems are also often associated, especially because of unsuitable railing designs, the risk of people being injured by falling objects. As the bottom of the marquee of the bottom of the site can be used. More often he is but covered with wood, with either wood panels or wood slats are used. With wooden slat floors in the beer tent sets (long tables and benches ) should be situated so that its shelves with the slats form a right angle, otherwise it can happen, especially in atmospheric festivals, in which often danced to the beer tent sets, that the bar breaks and acting as a tripping hazard blow hole.
Some larger beer tents at the edge of scaffolding wooden beams. These constructions are often redundant, since they usually do not contribute to the static of the tent. They are used by the visitors especially in violent parties as Notgarderobe. They are occasionally misused for pull-ups and other gymnastic exercises, but this can bring trouble with the staff. Also plywood panels are occasionally placed on these wooden scaffolding. However, they should, if they can be reached by standing on the tables persons with the hands, are bolted to these because they can be knocked off during violent parties otherwise.
Records
The biggest festival tent is the " Winzerer Fähndl " marquee at the Oktoberfest with 8450 seats inside and 2450 outside.
The longest marquee in the world is the " angel Tent " Tent of the brewery family specialist ( Crailsheim Engelbräu ) and the fixed host family cock on the Franconian Volksfest in Crailsheim with 127.5 meters in length.
Acquaintances marquees and marquee companies
Austria
- Salzkammergut Ausseerland
- Abersee
- Wimpassing an der Leitha
- Oktoberfest German Kreutz
Munich Oktoberfest
Stuttgart Beer Festival in Stuttgart
Marksmen Hannover
Rosenheim Autumn Festival
On the Rosenheim Autumn Festival are:
- Inn Valley Hall ( Auerbräu )
- Marquee of Floetzinger Brewery (second largest to-assemble marquee Europe )
- Wine tent " to Tatzlwurm "
Cologne
A stationary marquee in the south-west of Cologne has about 5,000 guests and describes itself as ' the largest carnival tent Germany '.