The Rákóczi Festival (in German also written Rakoczyfest) is the largest city festival in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen. Since 1950, it has been taking place annually at the last weekend of July and lasting for three days.
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The Rákóczi Festival (in German also written Rakoczyfest) is the largest city festival in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen.
01 · What it is
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02 · Where & name
Germany
Written in its own script on record as Rákóczi-Fest.
03 · How it is doing
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Chapter Takeaways
The Naming of the FestivalThe Rákóczi Festival is, as it is the case with the Rákóczi Spring (which is the best-known spa spring in Bad Kissingen), named after the aristocrat Francis II Rákóczi, a Hungarian freedom fighter.
Characteristics and highlightsThe Rákóczi Festival is a city festival to remember the history of Bad Kissingen with music being played in the whole inner centre of the city; former inhabitants of Bad Kissingen regularly revisit their hometown for…
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What is Rákóczi Festival in plain words?
The Rákóczi Festival (in German also written Rakoczyfest) is the largest city festival in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen. In local script on record, it is written Rákóczi-Fest.
Where is Rákóczi Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Rákóczi Festival in Germany.
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The Rákóczi Festival (in German also written Rakoczyfest) is the largest city festival in the German spa town of Bad Kissingen. Since 1950, it has been taking place annually at the last weekend of July and lasting for three days. During the festival, the city's historical past is remembered, in which a multitude of prominent spa guests such as Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Emperor Alexander II of Russia or Chancellor Otto von Bismarck are portrayed to play important roles. 1
The Naming of the Festival
The Rákóczi Festival is, as it is the case with the Rákóczi Spring (which is the best-known spa spring in Bad Kissingen), named after the aristocrat Francis II Rákóczi, a Hungarian freedom fighter. Francis II Rákóczi had a certain popularity in that time, in which the spring was discovered by famous architect Johann Balthasar Neumann and local pharmacist Georg Anton Boxberger. This was the reason why the spring was named after Rákóczi, although Rákóczi had never been to Bad Kissingen. 1
Characteristics and highlights
The Rákóczi Festival is a city festival to remember the history of Bad Kissingen with music being played in the whole inner centre of the city; former inhabitants of Bad Kissingen regularly revisit their hometown for the festival.
During the festival, historical personalities from Bad Kissingen's history are portrayed by the city's inhabitants in costumes. So, there is a performer for each historic spa guest, who has ever been to Bad Kissingen, as well as for Francis II Rákóczi, eponym of the festival.
Furthermore, the program of the festival includes a multitude of attractions such as ballooning in the Luitpold Park or burning numerous candles on the Saale ("The Saale burns"). The festival is concluded by the traditional fireworks. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Rákóczi Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Rákóczi Festival is recorded in open cultural data. The structured record cited below does not describe the practice, and this entry has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
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