Bad Dürkheim Wine Festival 2020

There s no cover charge the three wurstmarkt tents put on a programme of live music and entertainment serving regional culinary.

Bad dürkheim wine festival 2020.

Bad dürkheim wine festival this fantastic 12 day coach holiday takes us to some of germany s most enchanting towns. The sausage market is in fact the world s largest wine festival and dates back to the 12th century. It is over 570 years old and still as young as ever the dürkheim festival of festivals the main event of the year in the pfalz. It was a stroke of luck that we just happened to be in time to visit for the last couple of days of the biggest wine.

Wine is the centre of attention here obviously and guests can indulge in local wine at several locations across the festival. It grew up around a popular pilgrimage route which led to the chapel on top of the monte sancti michaelis now michaelsberg. One of the most traditional and entertaining festivals in germany annually held in september. This year s dates are september 7 to 11 and 14 to 17.

Just like munich s oktoberfest bad dürkheim sees a bunch of festive tents move onto the market plaza one notable difference is. Wine connoisseurs from all over europe pour into the wurstmarkt every september enticed by 150 varieties of local wine. Wine festival wurstmarkt in bad dürkheim september 2020 largest wine festival in the world bad dürkheim s wurstmarkt with a history of more than 550 years dürkheim s wurstmarkt is the largest winefestival in the world. The beginning of the deutsche weinstrasse or german wine route begins at the spa town of bad dürkheim in the rhineland palatinate region of western germany.

Rides fireworks yummy food. Relax and enjoy the charms of koblenz and cochem as you relish in the picturesque river scenery along with visiting romantic heidelberg historic rothenburg and the vibrant city of cologne. Welcoming 685 000 visitors each year the dürkheimer wurstmarkt dürkheim sausage market is actually the largest wine festival in the world. Taking place annually on the second and third weekend of september the dürkheimer wurstmarkt attracts wine lovers from across the globe to bad dürkheim a quaint spa town where they can enjoy a selection of more than 3 000 wines together with.

Every year in september more than 600 000 visitors flock to the town for its wurstmarkt. Located in the heart of palatinate germany s second largest wine growing region the wurstmarkt prides itself in being the world s biggest wine festival it has been called the wine version of munich s oktoberfest and takes place every second and third weekend in september in the spa town of bad dürkheim along the german wine road. Fri 09 18 2020 mon 09 21 2020 wurstmarkt the world s greatest wine festival bad dürkheim it s one of the largest most traditional and entertaining public festivals in germany. Wine tourism is key to bad dürkheim s economy.

Around 400 000 liters of wine is consumed by the combined effort of half a million visitors every year. While we weren t intending on following the wine route we did want to visit the town for a very good reason.