XXL Bavarian beer fest tours
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13 aug-23 aug 2010 The Gäubodenvolksfest in Straubing, the second largest genuine folk festival in Bavaria after the Munich Oktoberfest. |
Tour Itinerary
- Tour starts and ends at the Munich central station!
- Meeting point: In front of the Starbucks coffee shop next to platform 11
- Meeting time: 10 am
- Return: about 10 pm
- Price: 39 EUR
Tour includes:
- All transportation
- Tour guide
- Entrance fee
- Original 1 liter beer stein
The Gäubodenvolksfest is a modern and family friendly festival with about 120 carousels, roller coasters and six big beer tents with 24.000 seats at an area of about 90.000 m²., but it has upheld its traditional character. Many of the about 1.2 million visitors wear Bavarian costume ("Trachten").
The festival combines Bavarian tradition with progress and vitality. It is one of Bavaria's oldest and most popular festivals and it has increased to one of the biggest events in Germany. Beer plays a central role in the fair. The beer is specially brewed. Only breweries from Straubing or the district Straubing-Bogen are allowed to serve beer there.
On the first day of the festival there is a "Bierprobe", that means "trying of the beer" and a parade with 2,000 participants in native cloths on foot, on horses or horse carriages.
On the second day there is the official opening with a representative of the Bavarian or German government.
The festival is held every year in the middle of August and lasts 11 days. The festival is celebrated by the whole city as a "fifth season", and many companies are closed down during this time.
Combined with the Gäubodenvolksfest is the Ostbayernschau, the biggest fair trade of eastern Bavaria.
XXL Bavarian beer fest tour in Straubing
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28 aug-12 sep 2010 The Rosenheim Fall Festival, the largest festival in southwestern Upper Bavaria with over a million visitors annually. |
Tour Itinerary
- Tour starts and ends at the Munich central station!
- Meeting point: In front of the Starbucks coffee shop next to platform 11
- Meeting time: 10 am
- Return: about 10 pm
- Price: 39 EUR
Tour includes:
- All transportation
- Tour guide
- Entrance fee
- Original 1 liter beer stein
The Rosenheim Herbstfest, or Rosenheim Fall Festival (known locally as the "Wiesn" because it takes place on the Loretowiese), is the largest festival in southwestern Upper Bavaria (with over a million visitors annually) and is organized by the Wirtschaftlichen Verband Rosenheim every year. It always starts on the last Saturday in August with a traditional opening ceremony in the two beer tents and lasts 16 days. The festival is open from Monday to Saturday from midday to 11.30 p.m. and on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 11.30 p.m. The bar closes at 11 p.m. every day.
In contrast to the Munich Oktoberfest, which has been an established tradition for many years, the Rosenheim Herbstfest has developed from a regional agricultural festival with an industrial slant into a modern festival. The Loretowiese, which used to be a public meadow in front of the Rosenheim city gates, seems to have been made for this purpose. In medieval times, it was a venue for fairs, public entertainment and executions. Today, the central location of the Loretowiese means that it is mainly used as a car park, as well as an exhibition center e.g. for the Rosenheim Neue Messe.
From 1861, the agricultural shows that took place every five years were complemented with shooting and singing competitions, making them into folk festivals in the true sense of the phrase. In the ensuing years, the festival carried on growing, which was in part due to the fact that Rosenheim wanted to become a "beer town". In the 1890s, Rosenheim had eleven breweries for a population of 10,000 people, and over 400 hectoliters of beer was already being consumed.
However, the folk festival did not take place regularly. In 1873, there was a cholera endemic in the area surrounding Rosenheim, which meant that - as in the war years of 1914 to 1918 - the Herbstfest did not take place. The festival returned for the first time in 1925, with three huge beer tents, a wine tent and 19 entertainers.
During the post-war years 1946 to 1949, the Association of Bavarian Entertainers organized annual spring festivals on the Loretowiese until the Wirtschaftliche Verband Rosenheim took over as organizer and renamed the folk festival the "Rosenheimer Herbstfest" (Rosenheim Fall Festival).
XXL Bavarian Beer Fest Tour in Rosenheim
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