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Cry yourself happy over German onion festival

(16 Sep 2005)

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A trip into eastern Germany this October should see you venturing to Weimar – no, not to found a new republic - but to attend the annual Onion Market festival.

Running from October 7th to 10th, the Zweibelmarkt is not just a place to buy the best onions for your dishes, but has evolved into a wholesale festival including all sorts of different foods and other attractions.

Around 300,000 visitors flock to the city for the festival, which is one of the oldest in Europe, tracing its roots back to 1653.

It celebrates the humble onion and the fact that the vegetable is grown in large quantities around eastern Germany. A local girl receives the honour each year of being crowned the Onion Queen.

German beer is drunk in large quantities by the revellers, while those both able and willing can take part in a 10k run on the Saturday.

Weimar has a strong cultural history and is particularly well-known for being the home of the poet Goethe. Those interested in their 20th century history will also have much to do and see here – in addition to the Buchenwald concentration camp, now visited as a memorial site, the town was where a new constitution for the country was signed following the First World War defeat, prompting the short-lived Weimar Republic.



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