Hänsele-Jück (Fasnet Überlingen)
Every Fasnet, over 1,500 participants of the Hänsele guild process through Überlingen's Lake Constance old town carrying their Karpatsche cracking whips, joined by women in beautiful hand-carved wooden masks and the Hemdglonker in white nightgowns chasing away the last winter ghosts, culminating in the burning of a witch on Shrove Tuesday.
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"Organised by the Gesangverein and Landfrauenverein of Criesbach, this four-day Hohenlohe village wine festival takes place at the historic Kelter and includes the election of the Hohenlohe wine queen."
Criesbacher Weinfest
"The Oberrotweiler Winzerverein hosts this intimate Kaiserstuhl village wine weekend, where volcanic-soil Spätburgunder and Grauburgunder from one of Baden's oldest wine communities are poured in the heart of the village."
Oberrotweiler Winzerfest
"Every 3 October the Neckar wine town of Brackenheim marks the new vintage with young wine and Zwiebelkuchen, a large tasting, and wagon rides through the autumn vineyards."
Goldener Herbst am Weinkeller Brackenheim
"Forty timber stalls nestle beneath a 36-metre illuminated railway viaduct in a Black Forest gorge, creating one of Germany's most theatrical Advent settings, with tickets selling out within hours each year."
Weihnachtsmarkt in der Ravennaschlucht
"A half-timbered Black Forest small town hosts the world's largest Advent calendar house, its 24 Rathaus windows opened one by one each evening at 6 pm to reveal artworks by world-famous painters."
Gengenbacher Weihnachtsmarkt
"In the small Black Forest town of Elzach, the Schuttig fools in their distinctive red costumes and hedgehog-quill hats process through the medieval streets brandishing inflated pig's bladders to swat bystanders, in one of the most original and long-preserved Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht customs in Germany."
Schuttig-Fasnet
"A four-day Schützenfest in the small Münsterland town of Olfen, known for its strong community traditions and lively parade through the old town streets on the August bank weekend."
Schützenfest Olfen
"Limmersdorf's extraordinary Kirchweih is celebrated on a wooden dance floor built high in the branches of a centuries-old linden tree, one of the last surviving tree-dances in Europe and recognised as Bavarian intangible cultural heritage."
Limmersdorfer Lindenkirchweih
"Franconian Kirchweih danced around a 400-year-old linden tree whose dance floor sits four metres off the ground, organised each year by four bachelor Plootzborschen with a sand bowling alley and brass band music."
Lindenkirchweih Vestenbergsgreuth
"A Schützenfest in the North Sea coastal commune of Wangerland in East Frisia, combining the traditional marksmanship customs of the marshland with the bracing seaside setting of the Jade Bight coast."
Schützenfest Wangerland
"Gochsheim's Plankirchweih is a UNESCO-recognised intangible cultural heritage dating to 1649, when the village celebrated the restoration of religious freedom after the Thirty Years' War with a ceremonial Plantanz on the village square that is still danced today by costumed young villagers."
Plankirchweih Gochsheim
"Mittenwald's celebrated Goaßabtrieb sees goat herds with prize judging parade through the painted medieval streets of this violin-making village at the foot of the Karwendel."
Goaßabtrieb Mittenwald