Image: Antonio Bayer
Image: Antonio Bayer
Image: Wolfgang Simlinger
Image: Antonio Bayer
The Welser Volksfest got off to a perfect start on Thursday. Instead of the rain as in previous years, thousands of visitors romped around the festival grounds in mild temperatures for the test lighting. Yesterday’s family afternoon, parents, grandparents and children enjoyed themselves between the festival tent, the two wine halls and the 31 rides.
Image: Antonio Bayer
Carried by a good mood
The people who keep the festival going also radiate a good mood. Despite the high level of stress, festival host Ludwig Kleinlehner has a smile on his face. “In Wels the audience is younger than elsewhere. We take this into account with larger bars on the tent walls.” His 55 employees are fully challenged up to and including Sunday. Nothing is missing from the culinary point of view.
Image: Wolfgang Simlinger
Half a grilled chicken with pastries costs 12.70 euros. For chanterelles with napkin dumplings you pay 14.40 euros. A pint of beer is served for the same price as at the folk festival in spring (12.80 euros). The strongest among the servers carry up to 16 mugs at a time to the beer tables: “That has to be trained. You can’t do it without the right technique,” says Kleinlehner.
Image: Antonio Bayer
Project manager Christine Wimmer has filled every square meter of the festival grounds with rides. Everything rotates and moves. Take Off, Sombrero, Magic Dreamland and Break Dance, to name just a few, get passengers’ pulses racing. There was also a crowd in the wine tasting room and in the wine village, where you can choose between 43 bars and restaurants.
And how does director Robert Schneider outline the importance of the folk festival for the Wels trade fair? “The emotional significance is greater than the economic one. But it all started with the folk festival. It’s part of the DNA of our company.” (fam)
“G’spüt, dans and g’sunga”: the music program in the festival tent on Saturday from 7.30 p.m.: chaos, then until 1 a.m.: DJ Schranzi; Sunday from 11.30 a.m.: morning pint
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