Dachau folk festival aims high this year
Created: 08/12/2022 05:58
By: Thomas Zimmerly
Successful test drive in the traditional Ferris wheel: Mayor Florian Hartmann, People's Advisor Robert Gasteiger and foreman Siegfried Kistler (from left).
© Norbert Habschied
The traditional pre-folk festival tour in Dachau revealed what is on offer on the Thomawiese.
And that's quite a lot.
Dachau –
At the Dachau folk festival, it's a bit like a bride.
Traditionally, she is supposed to wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue on her wedding day.
It's similar at the Wiesn, which starts tomorrow Saturday and lasts until August 22nd.
There is a lot that is new, but also tried and tested at the Dachau folk festival
For example, there are time-honored items such as "The Little Bakery" by Ursula Krems, who has been spoiling guests at the folk festival with waffles or donuts for 48 years.
And there are some new things, such as Kollmann's historic children's carousel or the stand of Dachau's old town restaurant Dal Faggio, where pasta and wine are for sale.
"I'm pleased that Dachau innkeepers who have a good concept are there," said Tobias Schneider, head of the cultural department, who, together with organizer Andrea Löffler and site manager Siegfried Kistler, is in charge of the folk festival 2022.
Incidentally, this is the last time for Kistler.
"I've done this for 32 years.
It's over now," he said calmly.
His successor is called Magdalena Staudt and was also part of the tour yesterday.
Augustiner festival beer is poured from wooden barrels
The city of Dachau has borrowed some large refrigerated containers.
From the Munich Augustiner brewery.
They are placed between the big tent and the toilet facility.
The angular things block the beer garden visitors' direct way to the Häusl, but they are urgently needed, because the Augustiner is made of wooden barrels this year.
And of course it has to be well cooled.
"Every day there is a delivery from Munich," reveals Mayor Florian Hartmann.
The beer is bottled in the state capital and then transported to Dachau.
Friends of the cultivated Augustiner cold hops, watch out!
"The supply lasts for one and a half days," says the mayor, then it needs supplies.
The supply chain should therefore not be interrupted.
And Hartmann revealed one more thing: In the high phases, the barrel is tapped,
the tap is turned on and then not turned off again until the last drop is in the beer mug.
That takes a quarter of an hour, according to the mayor.
Speaking of running.
The Wiesn 2022 sees itself as a festival of equality.
That's why both men and women pay 30 cents each for going to the toilet.
As a reminder: in 2019, at the last Wiesn before Corona, there was a bitter argument about the fact that men did not have to pay anything to go to the urinal.
"O tempora, o mores", meaning the changing times, as Cicero and Baba, the pirate from the Asterix comics, once said.
Although that is also a good thing, as head of the cultural department Schneider said, because: “Men want it too!”
There is a lot that is tried and tested at the folk festival: Ursula Krems has been there with the small bakery for 48 years - much to the delight of folk festival speaker Robert Gasteiger and Mayor Florian Hartmann.
© Norbert Habschied
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Blue can also be found at the festival.
And what an eye-catcher.
The Bayern Tower of the Kaiser family is 90 meters high and something like "the tallest maypole in the world", according to Egon Kaiser.
The blue and white painted chain carousel "is the newest system on the market", according to the member of one of the oldest families of showmen in Europe.
The magnificent stick celebrated its premiere at the Oktoberfest in 2019, but then it had to remain horizontal for two years.
Now the tower is celebrating a resurrection and can rotate happily.
Kaiser puts it into perspective: “It doesn’t get bad for anyone.
If he pees his pants, it's only from the height."
The Ferris wheel is 38 meters high and illuminated
And there is another ride that takes you up high: the Ferris wheel.
38 meters high, equipped with 26 gondolas, it should be a real eye-catcher.
According to operator Ludwig Landwermann, the round viewing platform is illuminated in front and behind.
The Ferris wheel's new lighting system can produce smileys or hearts.
"It's like fireworks," says Landwermann.
The real thing comes on Thursday, August 18, at dusk.
Those interested can find the entire program at www.volksfestdachau.de or on the city's website at www.dachau.de.
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