Visitors from all over Bavaria come to the classic car meeting in Miesbach

The Weißbierbrauerei Hopf celebrated its 100th birthday for four days - with the classic car meeting on Sunday as the highlight: Historic mopeds, fire engines and tractors attracted visitors from all over Bavaria.

Miesbach - Things got hot at the Hopf Festival, during which the Miesbach wheat beer brewery celebrated its 100th birthday for four days.

One highlight chased the next: Wiagsog cutting, music and cabaret.

Yesterday, with a temperature of almost 40 degrees in the marquee and a sensational meeting of the Miesbach classic car friends, the absolute peak was reached.

Thousands were already on the move between the Volksfestplatz and Habererplatz in the morning: either they looked at the more than 600 historic vehicles or they followed the exciting student championships in finger wrestling in the Hopf festival tent (report to follow).

Families from all over Bavaria had come for both, and the idea of ​​throwing the anniversary celebration planned for 2021 but postponed due to Corona together with the classic car meeting that takes place every four years was tantamount to a stroke of genius.

Hopf managing director Tilo Ruttmann and Oldtimerfreunde chairman Erhard Pohl gave each other credit for this.

Show exceeds expectations

One or the other had already arrived on Saturday and brought their cleaned and polished vehicle into position.

"It's terrific.

That really exceeds our wildest expectations,” said Pohl happily.

He proudly looked over the vehicles glistening in the sun: historic bicycles, scooters, mopeds, motorcycles, tractors and special vehicles.

BMW, Opel, Porsche.

They had all been set up according to categories in an organizational feat by the association's 46 helpers.

Each category had its own area and, so to speak, its own show within the show.

Dressed up rarities

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Travel back in time to the 1950s: a historic gas station bears witness to days gone by. 

© Alexandra Korimorth

Bertl Moser from the Waitzinger Bräu collector friends, who had come with ten of his own DKW motorcycles and 35 other DKW owners, had even (in the back parking lot) recreated a historic gas station from the 1950s.

At the front of Habererplatz, tractor fans crowded through the spruced up rarities from the manufacturers Fendt, Lanz, Eicher, Deutz, Same, Hanomag and Allgäuer.

The blue and turquoise tractors from Miesbach-based manufacturer Primus attracted a lot of attention.

After all, the company for commercial vehicles was founded in Berlin in 1933 and relocated to Miesbach after it was bombed out in World War II.

Here she continued to produce and exported worldwide.

So the visitors, who entertained each other with stories about their mangled collectibles, were feverishly

the auction of the Primus PD2: "Gear shifts, engine works, frost damage to the engine block, papers are not available." It went to Bergham's young farmer Fabian Rüppel, who wants to preserve the piece with a patina and make it roadworthy again.

The 2,400 euros that he put on the table for this benefit the inclusion playground in Miesbach.

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Small but mighty: A vintage moped.

© Christian Scholle

Organizer enthusiastic

Hopf managing director Tilo Ruttmann was enthusiastic: "Everything was very, very well received," he said, referring to the exciting Wiagsog cutting competitions with 20 men's and four women's teams, the well-attended Django Asül cabaret evening, the Fischbachauer Goasslschnoitzer and the sensational and already legendary concert evening with the Keller Steff Big Band, during which the marquee almost boiled over.

Ruttmann promised: "We'll do that again."

Unfortunately, there was an incident after the oldtimer meeting: when loading a historic Berlin road tractor onto the trailer, the loading ramp slipped away.

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The Primus tractors and their history enjoyed particular attention. 

© Alexandra Korimorth