With around 500,000 visitors annually, the Rudolstadt Bird Shooting Festival is the largest folk festival in Thuringia and one of the most popular in Germany. Every year, the Bleichwiese transforms into a large festival grounds featuring rides, carnival

There is still a funfair in Leipzig during the Christmas season. The organiser, the Volklandt family, is a fixture in the fairground industry and a sixth-generation family business. They organise a large pop-up winter leisure park at the Paunsdorf Center

For 10 days, the rides keep visitors on the edge of their seats. One highlight follows the next. There is no chance of boredom here.

Even the little ones are catered for with various rides.

The beer garden, snack stands, churros and waffle bakeries as well

Over the first weekend in September, Lübbecke celebrates in a big way, then it's the Blasheim Market. With many attractive rides and a great party atmosphere, visitors are attracted to the grounds. Of course, there is also a varied gastronomy.

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Auckland is located in the north of New Zealand's North Island. In the big city with around 1.5 million inhabitants, more precisely in Manukau, there has been an amusement park since 1982. Rainbow's End is the largest amusement park in the country,

The town of Kaltenkirchen usually organises its traditional fair with around 80 shops on the fairground, Norderstraße, on the first weekend in September.

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By public transport:

- by train - Kaltenkirchen railway station (distance to the

In Bensheim on the Bergstrasse in southern Hesse, the Bergstrasse Wine Festival takes place every year in September and lasts nine days. It traditionally starts on the Saturday before the 1st Sunday in September with the coronation of the Bergstrasse

Parque Aquático de Amarante is a seasonal and regional water park that is open every year from the beginning of June to mid-September. During this opening period of about one hundred days, the park is currently visited by an average of 150,000 guests

In the small British seaside resort of Mablethorpe in the East Lindsey district, around 35 kilometres south-east of Grimsby and 60 kilometres east of Lincoln, you will find Manning's Family Funfair amusement park. This amusement park, which is also known

The Coburg Spring Festival - which can now look back on decades of tradition - opens its doors every year on Coburg's Ketschenanger.

Lots of attractive rides, musical entertainment and a large selection of festival catering offer plenty of fun. So, pack