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.
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.
More tips for your overnight stay in Volkach and the surrounding area
- Are you looking for hotels and guesthouses for the Volkach Wine Festival? Here you can find, for example Hotels *, or search for the board* in Volkach and surroundings that you like.
- Or would you rather explore Volkach and the surrounding area from a holiday apartment? You can also find one here Selection*.
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 on the Main Loop. We watch how the Volkacher town councilor, the wine princess and the Volkacher Landsknecht together with two winegrowers prepare the first grapes of the season for the press. In the meantime, the Volkacher brass band creates a wine-like atmosphere and a dance group entertains the festival visitors with dances in historical costumes.
A colorful spectacle! In the meantime, the wine press is ready for the first grapes of the year, and we watch the Wine Princess and the Lansquenet pouring buckets of young grapes into the press that the Volkach Alderman sets in motion by hand. A whole trough full of freshly squeezed wine juice is then distributed to the waiting festival visitors at the Volkach Wine Festival. They are invited to try the first grape juice of the year with Franconian specialties such as "Onion Plootz" (onion bread) and Franconian fried sausages (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 hedges in the area of Volkach. For this we leave the Volkach Wine Festival and drive a few kilometers out to the wine island in the middle of the Main to Nordheim, where we try Franconian specialties at the Glaser winery. Petar and I share an onion bread and a plate of liver wörschtli and Blutwörschtli in the pan with roasting patties. We still understand liver sausages and blood sausages, but we have to inquire about “roast sausages”. Our Franconian language skills do not yet go that far: we learn that these are fried potatoes.
More tips for Volkach on the Main Loop
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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?
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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
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You are interested in further wine festivals in Volkach and the surrounding area. Then take a look at the Franconian wine festival calendar.
Together with beets from Grandpa's garden, the Franconian specialties turn out as quite hearty and make us thirsty for the young grape juice, that we enjoy. "Heckenwirtschaften" (restaurants) are the perfect place to taste Franconian wines directly from the winemaker. In the past, winegrowers opened their gardens, living rooms or even bedrooms for wine lovers for a limited period of time, served them hearty home cooked meals and their own wines. Today you can get Franconian specialties and wines in nicely decorated taverns or garden inns or at the Volkach Wine Festival. Franconian wines cannot be tasted more authentically. However, you have to know, when which "Heckenwirtschaft" is open. You can check that, for example 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 hedge farms 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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- 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.
- An Camera* for the photo opportunities that Volkach offers.
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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.
The next Volkach Wine Festival takes place from August 12th to 16th, 2022 in Volkach.
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 or on the portable grill or maybe on a campfire . You can also find Dutch oven accessories You can also find it here.
- Practical accessories for the mobile home you can also find 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
Photos: © Copyright Monika Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
Video: © Copyright Petar Fuchs and TravelWorldOnline
