– The beer festival season in Germany continues apace this weekend with some competition for Munich’s Oktoberfest in the shape of the world renowned Cannstatter Wasen Volksfest beer festival and autumn fair in Stuttgart.
This live webcam is in Stuttgart throughout the festival:
http://www.myworldwebcams.com/events/cannstatter_volksfe …
Event Information:
The extensive Wasen area is located in the Stuttgart city district of Bad Cannstatt, near the river Neckar. A smaller variant of the Stuttgart Festival – the Stuttgart Spring Festival is also held each year on the Wasen.
Although the Volkfest is not strictly speaking a beer festival, it is considered by many to be the second largest beer festival in the world after the Munich Oktoberfest. According to estimates about 4.2 million people visited the festival in 2006. The Volksfest begins one week later than the Oktoberfest.
Symbolic of the Cannstatter Wasen is its “fruit column”, a wooden pillar decorated with fruit, 26 metres high and weighing 3.5 tons. After World War I, with the beginning of the Weimar Republic, the fruit column was removed from the Cannstatter Wasen as it was considered a relic of the monarchy. Since 1935, the 100th anniversary, it has been back in its traditional place. Until recently the fruit column, the design of which has changed over the years, was dismantled after each Volksfest. Every few years it is redesigned. Since 1995 it has been left in place throughout the year and is thus also on display at the Stuttgart spring festival.
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