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The medieval centre of Esslingen am Neckar, Germany Qwerty123uiop · CC0

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Medieval Esslingen am Neckar

Former free imperial city on the Neckar just east of Stuttgart, with one of Germany's best-preserved half-timbered old towns, a hilltop castle wall and the oldest row of half-timbered houses in the country.

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Medieval festivals in Esslingen am Neckar

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Esslingen Medieval Market & Christmas Market

Esslingen am Neckar, Germany

Esslingen am Neckar's combined medieval market and Christmas market fills the half-timbered old town from the last week of November until just before Christmas. Around 200 stalls and roughly 500 programme slots of jugglers, fire artists, craft demonstrations and music make it the largest event of its kind in southern Germany.

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Der Meistertrunk (Rothenburg Whitsun Festival) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber Hiroki Ogawa · CC BY 3.0
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Der Meistertrunk (Rothenburg Whitsun Festival)

Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany

Rothenburg ob der Tauber's Whitsun festival re-enacts the legend of 1631, when former mayor Nusch supposedly saved the town from General Tilly's army by emptying a tankard holding more than three litres of wine in one draught. Citizens have performed the play 'Der Meistertrunk' since 1881, framed by a four-day festival with a costumed procession, military camp, shepherds' dance and crafts market.

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Medieval Christmas

Nürnberger Christkindlesmarkt

Nuremberg, Germany

Nuremberg's Christkindlesmarkt fills the Hauptmarkt and the Rathausplatz from the Friday before the first Advent to Christmas Eve with 168 red-and-white wooden stalls and about 180 traders, opened each year by the Christkind's prologue from the gallery of the Frauenkirche and drawing around two million people; the 2026 market runs 27 November to 24 December. It is not a medieval market: the square is 14th-century and the Frauenkirche was Charles IV's imperial court chapel, but the market itself is first documented in 1678 — a date the market's own historians revised from 1628 — and t...

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Landshuter Hochzeit 1475 in Landshut Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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Landshuter Hochzeit 1475

Landshut, Germany

Every four years about 2,500 costumed citizens of Landshut restage the 1475 wedding of Duke Georg the Rich and Princess Hedwig of Poland over three and a half weeks of processions, tournaments, camp life and plays. First performed in 1903, it is Europe's largest historical costume festival; the next edition runs 25 June–18 July 2027.

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Other medieval cities in Germany: Kaltenberg · Landshut · Nuremberg · Rothenburg ob der Tauber