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The Night of the Lorelei, Wine festival
in St. Goar and St. Goarshausen, Germany boat round cruise tickets | Flaming
Rhine river gorge Firework pictures | show photos St. Goar on the left Rhine
border between Mainz, Bingen, Bacharach, Oberwesel, Coblence, Koblenz, Bonn
and Koln, Cologne, St. Goarshausen on the right Rhine border between
Frankfurt, Wiesbaden, Rudesheim, Braubach and Lahnstein |
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Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 St. Goar and St. Goarshausen on the Rhine River. Next date: September 19, 2026 Rhine in Flames - The Night of the Lorelei Wine festival in St. Goar and St. Goarshausen. On the same evening, about 6 km south: Wine festival in Oberwesel On the third weekend in September the
two sister towns near the Lorelei rock, St. Goar with castle Rheinfels and St. Goarshausen
with the castles Katz (cat) and Maus (mouse), celebrate their yearly wine festival. An absolute highlight of both wine festivals is the in Germany and
further away known Light spectacle "Rhine river in flames" / "Rhine river
aflame" - The night of the Lorelei rock on Saturday evening. More than ten thousands
of visitors yearly gather on both sides of the Rhine river banks and more than 70 boats
with about 30,000 boat cruise parade guests on the Rhine river between St. Goar and St.
Goarshausen. Since 1949 the firework display belongs to a fixed part of the event calendar
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The wine booths are spread everywhere on the church place (Kirchplatz), the market place (Marktplatz), the pedestrian zone and the Rhine river banks. Between the harbor and the Rhine river banks you'll find the "Jahrmarkt der Jahrhundertwende" ("Year market of the turn of the century") with its old, typical year market booths from back then, which attract big and small, young and old. There's a good atmosphere on all three days. Music band and bands offer musical entertainment and dance music. Attending vine dresser dance groups offer a colorful program with their colorful traditional costumes and folkloristic dances. Your physical well-being is taken care of at several snack bars. Besides this, St. Goar also has a lot of hotels, restaurants and wine bars, where meals can be eaten and a glass of wine can also be drunken.
Lots of wine booths and vine dresser alcoves at the tower and on the
market place (Marktplatz) in St. Goarshausen invite to a drink. For the event "Rhine
in flames" / "Rhine aflame" booths will also be set up on the Rhine river
banks. You can refuel your energy at different snack bars. Music groups play for dances on
all days. Traditionally, the senior evening is arranged on Tuesday. The senior group
entertains you with different kinds of dances. |
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