Oktoberfest countdown: only 16 days left until o'zapft
With the entry of the Oktoberfest hosts on the morning of September 21st, the festival beer symbolically comes to the Theresienwiese
189th Munich Oktoberfest from September 21st to October 6th, 2024
Munich. It's always exciting when, on the morning of September 21st, the honors of the city of Munich and the Oktoberfest hosts drive through downtown Munich to Theresienwiese in their decorated horse-drawn carriages. There are mobile seating stages on the streets along the route and everything is waiting for the parade. ... and you can be there all over the world, because our city and home station "TV-Munich" broadcasts live every day from the Paulaner festival tent: www.muenchen.tv/wirsindwiesn/
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| The Guard and the Munich Kindl arrive at the Oktoberfest, photo: Waess (press archive) |
This year it will be a particularly festive start again when the innkeepers bring the festival beer to the Oktoberfest in old wooden barrels - of course only symbolically, because the horse-drawn teams cannot transport as much beer as is consumed here.
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| Brewery horses bring the beer wagons to the Oktoberfest, press photo archive: Helga Waess |
After all, the breweries served around 6.5 million steins of beer at the last Oktoberfest in Munich - in 2014, there were 7.7 million steins that were brought to the tables with the golden juice.
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| Paulaner beer truck arrives at the Oktoberfest, press photo archive: Helga Waess |
The arrival of the Oktoberfest hosts in 2024 tells us: The Oktoberfest can start!
The Munich Kindel, carriages and brewery teams will be on
- Saturday, September 21, 2024 from 10:45 a.m. start on Josephspitalstrasse and then move from Sendlinger Tor to Theresienwiese
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| The Munich child comes to the Oktoberfest on horseback, press photo archive: Helga Waess |
The route of the festival march
- Start Josephspitalstrasse at the back of Sendlinger Tor
- Sun Street / Sonnenstrasse
- Schwanthaler Street
- Hermann Lingg Street
- to Bavariaring
- directly onto Wirtsbudenstrasse
- and off to the festival tents
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| Spatenbräu float on the Oktoberfest meadow, press photo archive: Helga Waess |
The television station TV Munich / "TV MÜNCHEN" broadcasts live when o'zapft is happening!
And then promptly at 12 o'clock you can hear the firecrackers over Munich when the mayor of the city of Munich, Dieter Reiter, taps the first barrel of Oktoberfest beer in the Schottenhamel festival hall - the whole of Munich counts the shots (TV Munich broadcasts live) - and with that traditional
“O'zapft is”
the beer flows in all the tents and the music starts.
