First Sunday of the Oktoberfest - September 22nd, 2024
On the first Sunday of the Oktoberfest, you should watch in Munich when the traditional costume and rifle parade moves through downtown Munich to Theresienwiese on September 22, 2024
189th Oktoberfest from September 21st to October 6th, 2024
Munich - city center - traditional costume parade from Maximilianstrasse to Theresienwiese on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024. On Saturday in 6 days at 12 noon there will be "o'zapft" in Munich. The next day is the start of the Oktoberfest for us Munich residents: the first Sunday of the Oktoberfest with the large, traditional, approximately 7 kilometer long costume parade from Maximilianstrasse to Theresienwiese. It starts shortly after 10 a.m. at the Max II monument in the immediate vicinity of the Maximilianeum. Every year around 9,000 people from shooting and traditional costume clubs, the Munich Morisken dancers, marching bands, singing clubs and brass bands take part here; and the most beautiful thing is the traditional costumers and bands come from all over Europe. Let's look forward to historical costumes from Spain to Sweden, dirndls and lederhosen, the fashion of the Biedermeier period and - this much can be revealed - knight's armor. The sequence for the traditional costume parade at the 189th Oktoberfest 2024
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| The music is coming! Traditional costume of the brass band - press photo archive: Helga Waess |
The Tachtler procession is led by Münchner Kindl, the Mayor of Munich and Bavaria's Prime Minister
The procession through Munich city center is led by the current Münchner Kindl, which can be seen everywhere in the town hall on Marienplatz as the city's coat of arms. This year it is 20-year-old Franziska Inselkammer. Also in the carriages at the front of the procession are Munich's Mayor Dieter Reiter and Bavaria's Prime Minister Dr. Markus Söder there. The breweries also send festively decorated, multi-horse floats and offer spectators a beautiful sight on the street or in the windows
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| Shooters in traditional Bavarian costume in the parade in Munich, press photo archive: Helga Waess |
First Oktoberfest Sunday “Live” on TV:
Many Bavarians also sit in front of the television when Bayerischer Rundfunk or München TV broadcast the traditional costume parade live.
Briefly about the history of the traditional costume parade:
In 1835, the traditional costume parade moved through Munich for the first time on the occasion of the silver wedding anniversary of King Ludwig I and Therese of Bavaria. 25 years earlier, both had married on October 12, 1810, which was celebrated with the first Oktoberfest.
Watch out! Dear Oktoberfest guests, you shouldn't miss this:
Traditional costume and rifle parade,
on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024,
through Munich city center to Theresienwiese
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| Und nach dem Trachtenumzug wird auf der Wiesn gefeiert! Foto: Helga Waess (Pressearchiv) |
