The Volkach Wine Festival
We visit the Volkach Wine Festival. wine festivals. offer a perfect opportunity to experience the wines and the way of life in the world's wine regions. Going on holiday in a wine region in Germany always means getting to know the traditions of the winemakers. This also includes the Volkacher Wine Festival. What do you drink in Volkach? “The best that God sent us is fine wine from Franconia - We discovered this saying on a house wall in Nordheim on the Weininsel in the Mainschleife im Franconian wine country to Volkach.
The grape harvest
if beginning Autumn the days are getting cooler again, the grape harvest begins on the Main in the Franconian wine country. Then festivals are celebrated and the young wine is tested. We were at the Volkach Wine Festival, which officially opens the grape harvest. This year it starts two weeks later than usual because the winegrowers want to give the wine a little more sun. Although we had a summer of the century with many sunny and hot summer days, the winter also lasted a little longer than usual. In order for the vintage to be a perfect wine year, the grapes are given some time to ripen on the vines.
The Wine Festival Volkach celebrates the start of the Harvest
However, that doesn't stop the people of Volkach from pressing the first grapes of the year at the Volkach Wine Festival and serving the festival visitors the fresh juice. The market place in front of the town hall of Volkach becomes a large fairground with long wooden tables and wooden benches, on which the visitors can have a good time. With wine and Franconian specialties that's easy. The Volkach councilor and the town's wine princess welcome the guests from the fountain in the middle of the square. They are accompanied by the Volkacher Landsknecht and wine princesses from the surrounding wine communities, because Volkach is located on the Main loop and only a few kilometers away from the wine island in the middle of the Main, where red and white wines are grown.
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Volkach Wine Festival on the Mainschleife
The Volkach Wine Festival has been taking place every year since 1948 and lasts for several days. The eleven festival vintners present more than 120 Franconian wines from the Bavarian Vineyards along the Main River loop. We watch as the Volkach councilman, the wine princess, and the Volkach mercenary, together with two winegrowers, prepare the first grapes of the season for pressing.
Meanwhile, the Volkach brass band creates a wine-fueled atmosphere, and a dance group entertains the festival-goers with dances in historical costumes.
The first grapes of the year
A colorful spectacle! Meanwhile, the wine press is ready for the first grapes of the year, and we watch as the wine princess and the mercenary pour buckets of young grapes into the press, which the Volkach councilman sets in motion by hand.
A whole trough full of freshly pressed wine juice is then distributed to the waiting festival visitors at the Volkach wine festival, who are invited to try the first grape juice of the year with Franconian specialties such as Zwiebelplootz (onion bread) and Franconian Bratwörscht (sausages).
A Day Trip to the Franconian Wine Country
Since we only went on a day trip to the Franconian wine country, we prefer, our Wine snack to enjoy in one of the currently open wine taverns in the Volkach area. For this, we leave the Volkach wine festival and drive a few kilometers out to the wine island in the middle of the Main River, to Nordheim, where we sample Franconian specialties at the Glaser winery.
Petar and I shared an onion bread and a plate of liver sausage and blood sausage in a pan with fried potatoes. We understood liver sausage and blood sausage, but we had to ask about "fried potatoes." Our Franconian dialect wasn't quite up to the task yet: we learned that they were fried potatoes.
More tips for Volkach on the Main Loop
Volkach sights that are also worthwhile at the Volkach Wine Festival:
- The town hall
- The market square with the market fountain
- The parish church
- the old latin school
- the rent office
- The Franciscan monastery
- The Alte Würzburger Amtskellerei
- The Upper Gate
- The upper market
- The St. Michaels church
- The Citizens' Hospital
- The Shelf House
- The baroque barn museum
- The lower gate
- The Echterhof
- The town houses on the market square
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Where is Volkach?
Volkach is located in the Franconian wine country near the Main loop. A Map here.
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Wine festivals in Volkach and the surrounding area
You are interested in further wine festivals in Volkach and the surrounding area. Then take a look at the Franconian wine festival calendar.
Enjoy wine in the wine taverns
Together with beets from grandpa's garden, the Franconian specialties They are quite hearty and make you thirsty for the young grape juice we enjoy with them. Wine taverns are the perfect place to... Franconian wines to taste directly from the winemaker.
In the past, winemakers would open their gardens, living rooms, or even bedrooms to wine lovers for a limited period, serving them hearty home-style food and their own wines.
Today, you can enjoy Franconian specialties and wines in charmingly decorated inns or beer gardens, or at the Volkach Wine Festival. There's no more authentic way to experience Franconian wines. However, you need to know when each wine tavern is open. You can check this, for example, on [website/platform name]. on this website.
Hedge farms in Volkach and the surrounding area
In this section I will explain how hedge farms work and what you need to know as a customer. A Heckenwirtschaft or Häckerwirtschaft is an inn open seasonally by winegrowers or winegrowers, where the winegrowers sell their home-made wine.
If the economy is open, you "plug out". That is, then you put a bush on the economy. This shows the passer-by that he can stop there. The wines produced by the winery are served in the hedge farms. There's that Franconian specialties.
Since the wine taverns are not always open, you can check here which ones are open during your stay.
You can find it here Hedge management calendar from Volkach.
That must be in the for the visit to Volkach Suitcase
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- Wear comfortable Shoes. In Volkach you will definitely walk a lot.
- Also, forget comfortable pumps not, because in some Volkach restaurants you dine in elegant surroundings.
- A backpack, in which you can store a picnic, for example.
- A Camera* for the photo opportunities that Volkach offers.
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A day trip or a wine weekend
Even if this time we were only on a day trip to the Volkach wine festival in the Franconian wine region, it is always worthwhile to spend a weekend or a week there. In the wine country there are hiking and biking trails on which you can explore the beauties of the wine regions on the Main. And of course there are a number of ways to experience the wine, the grape harvest and the winemakers.
Do you like to travel by motorhome?
- Do you want to rent a mobile home? Then you will find information and a selection of booking options here. Rent a motorhome or a camper near you here. Or would you prefer to stay overnight instead in a roof tent on the car? In addition, the overnight stay in camping tents is possible.
- Be sure to check our packing list for campers to see whether you have packed everything for your motorhome tour.
- For example, you can stay overnight at the Ankergrund campsite, Driver Str. 7, 97332 Volkach. But there are other campsites near Volkach. You can relax there after a day trip Dutch Oven on the portable grill or maybe on a campfire . You can also find Dutch oven accessories .
- Find practical accessories for the mobile home here.
- Why is a folding e-bike useful when camping?
Travel Arrangements
Parking at the airport
Here you can reserve your parking space at the airport.
Arrival by plane, car, bus and train to the Volkach Wine Festival
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Car Rentals:
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Accommodations in the region:
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Source for the Volkach wine festival: local experiences. We would definitely like to thank you Franconian wine country for supporting this trip and the tip to visit the Volkacher Wine Festival. However, our opinions remain our own.
Text: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
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Video: © Copyright Petar Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
