Bad Sooden-Allendorf is nationally known for the Erntedank- und Heimatfest (roughly “Thanksgiving and Homeland Festival”), which is celebrated each year through the third weekend in August (Friday to Tuesday).
Above all, it is popular for its many traditions, having been celebrated for more than a hundred years with the same programme.
The highlights are:
Street festival in the Old Town (Friday), midway on the festival square (Saturday to Tuesday)
Torchlight procession followed by a military tattoo and the festival of lights (“Werra in Flames”)
Triolett dance, a round dance with two threesomes
Spanisch Fricco – food
Great festival parade on Sunday
Rich decoration of the town with garlands and harvest crowns made of grain
Every year in the week after Easter, the traditional Märchenwoche (“Fairytale Week”) is held in Bad Sooden-Allendorf.
Many events such as “fairytale evenings” and theatrical productions bring fairy tales into the world, framed by daily appearances by fairytale characters in the spa park.
At the focus stands Frau Holle, who is said to have lived on the nearby Hoher Meißner and to have daily shaken the featherbeds out in the historic Söder Tor (“Sooden Gate”)
Bad Sooden-Allendorf is nationally known for the Erntedank- und Heimatfest (roughly “Thanksgiving and Homeland Festival”), which is celebrated each year through the third weekend in August (Friday to Tuesday). Above all, it is popular for its many traditions, having been celebrated for more than a hundred years with the same programme. The highlights are:
Street festival in the Old Town (Friday), midway on the festival square (Saturday to Tuesday)
Torchlight procession followed by a military tattoo and the festival of lights (“Werra in Flames”)
Triolett dance, a round dance with two threesomes
Spanisch Fricco – food
Great festival parade on Sunday
Rich decoration of the town with garlands and harvest crowns made of grain
Every year in the week after Easter, the traditional Märchenwoche (“Fairytale Week”) is held in Bad Sooden-Allendorf. Many events such as “fairytale evenings” and theatrical productions bring fairy tales into the world, framed by daily appearances by fairytale characters in the spa park. At the focus stands Frau Holle, who is said to have lived on the nearby Hoher Meißner and to have daily shaken the featherbeds out in the historic Söder Tor (“Sooden Gate”)
Bad Sooden-Allendorf