Schützenfest Wangerland
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.
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"A Lüneburger Heide village harvest festival with a grand decorated wagon procession and the ceremonial crowning of the Deutsche Erntekönigin, one of the most picturesque rural autumn pageants in northern Germany."
Steinbecker Erntefest mit Krönung der Deutschen Erntekönigin
"East Frisia's flagship harvest thanksgiving festival transforms Norden's historic market streets each September with agricultural displays, local produce stalls and a themed programme rooted in farming life."
Erntedankfest Norden
"One of the largest village harvest festivals in the Bremen hinterland, featuring a grand decorated wagon procession through the commune streets and an Oktoberfest-style evening party."
Erntefest Schwanewede
"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
"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
"A UNESCO-recognised peace festival dating to 1649 in which elaborately costumed Planburschen raise a 15-metre spruce pole and perform centuries-old Franconian round dances on the village square."
Gochsheimer Kirchweih (Plankirchweih)