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The Oktoberfest, the Theresienwiese in Munich, is the home of the original Oktoberfest and here and there you can hear that there are already hotel bookings from the United States of America or Australia for this year's festival
189th Munich Oktoberfest from September 21st to October 6th, 2024 (GERMAN)
Munich. Today the Munich Spring Festival ends on the Theresienwiese below the Bavaria! The large flea market, the classic car meeting and the fireworks, including a customs day, attracted many guests to the world-famous meadow. But: after the festival is before the festival! But let's take a look at the location of the event: Everyone knows it: the Wies'n (Bavarian) - or in standard German: the meadow! What is meant is just one meadow: the Munich Oktoberfest meadow/Theresienwiese - that beautiful, large open space that is home to the world-famous, original Munich Oktoberfest once a year. The flights to the Bavarian capital are already being booked and the hotels in Munich and the Bavarian Oberland are already being reserved. BECAUSE: Hurray! It's almost that time again: The "Wiesn", as the world-famous Munich Oktoberfest is called in Bavaria, will take place this year (meaning this year / 2024) from September 21st to October 6th. The largest folk festival in the world will once again welcome many guests from all over the world and if there is still a free seat on the bench in the festival tent, you will hear: "Sit here, then you can eat more!" - See also our article on the Wiesner opening 2023: Start of the Munich Oktoberfest with heart! Respect for this art of flying and thank you for this unforgettable declaration of love for Munich - IN GERMAN: Start des Münchner Oktoberfestes mit Herz! Respekt für diese Flugkunst und Dankeschön für diese unvergessliche Liebeserklärung an München
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| Oktoberfest on the Theresienwiese with a view of the old town with women's church towers, photo: Helga Waess |
Since 1810, the Munich Oktoberfest has been held every year on the large Theresienwiese, which offers an open space of 42 hectares
The very first Munich Oktoberfest in October 1810 was held on the occasion of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen. In honor of the bride, the meadow was named “Theresiens Wiese” and later simply Theresienwiese. To this day, the term Wiesn is the world-famous synonym for the original Munich Oktoberfest.
Theresienwiese and Bavaria with Hall of Fame
Outside of the festivities, there is a skate park and a basketball court on the edge of the Oktoberfest, as well as a few goals that mark the football pitches. A bicycle park course has been painted on which everyone can practice and you can climb up the stairs inside and look out of the large Bavaria statue in front of the Hall of Fame. From here you can not only see the old town with the famous towers of the Frauenkirche and the town hall tower, but when the weather is nice you can also see the Bavarian Alps, which are ideal for hiking. The Oktoberfest meadow is located in the middle of Munich's Ludwigsvorstadt-Isarvorstadt district. During the day you should use the open gates and enter the pillar-lined Hall of Fame, where the country honors the famous Bavarians with their own busts.
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| Entry of the Münchner Kindl onto the Oktoberfest meadow, photo: A. Waess |
The 189th Munich Oktoberfest 2024
This year too, the entrance of the Oktoberfest hosts and the famous Oktoberfest beer tapping in the Schottenhamel will open the festivities. There will be many program items during the festival from September 21st to October 6th, such as the famous cannon shooting.
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| Paulaner float for the Munich Oktoberfest - Photo: A. Waess |
The symbolic entry of the Oktoberfest hosts 2024 traditionally brings the original Oktoberfest beer from the six major Munich breweries in wooden barrels to the festival halls on the first Saturday of the Oktoberfest
When the beer arrives on the Theresienwiese in festively decorated brewery wagons, then the time has come in Munich: it's Oktoberfest again! The colorful carriages and brewery teams of the Oktoberfest hosts will be seen on September 21, 2024 at 10:45 a.m. from Josephspitalstrasse through the city to Theresienwiese. Grandstands will be set up here and there along the route so you can watch.
The Wiesn hosts - above all the festival carriages with the state father Markus Söder and the mayor of the state capital Munich Dieter Reiter - move from Josephspitalstrasse behind the Sendlinger Tor onto the wide Sonnenstrasse, then turn into Schwanthaler Strasse and drive straight on to Bavariaring, from Here you get directly to Wirtsbudenstrasse where the festival tents, or rather festival halls, of the big Oktoberfest innkeepers are lined up. In 2023, around 1,000 participants took part in the festive entry.
Every year on the first Saturday of Oktoberfest you hear “O'zapft is!”
... when the mayor of the city of Munich opens the first Oktoberfest beer keg with hopefully just a few taps. Then the first beer flows into the beer mug and the Prime Minister Markus Söder receives the first mug from the mayor. Afterwards they both come across “a peaceful Oktoberfest!” on, the music is playing and all the guests in the overcrowded festival halls are celebrating with new Oktoberfest beer.
Some people are already wishing for September 21, 2024 and guests all over the world are already planning to visit the original Munich Oktoberfest.
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| The Munich Oktoberfest and its guests seen from the Hall of Fame and the Bavaria, photo: A. Waess |
