1. Calendar of events of the region
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Ederseeregion - Guitar Festival (concerts in various places)
Brilon - 31. Jazznacht - with Triosence and Jakob Manz Project
Meschede - Kings Of Floyd - Dark Side Tour (City Hall)
Brilon - Brilon by night (city drift)
Usseln - Mind2Mode (U2, Simple Minds, Depeche Mode Coverband)
Soest - 685. Allerheilgenkirmes (most beautiful and largest old town kirmes in Europe)
Meschede - "Depeche Reload" Depeche Mode Tribute (City Hall)
Elspe - SCHURZENJÄGER CONCERT 2026 (Western Saloon)
Willingen - Theater evening
Elspe - Dinner Show (Festival Hall)
Soester Weihnachtsmarkt - most beautiful World Cup in NRW
Meschede - "Yakari - Friends for Life" Family musical (city hall)
Meschede - Advent lights in the city center with Christmas market and late-night shopping
Winterberg - racing toboggan worldcup
Willingen - a winter fairy tale (Fr/Sa/So in the Kurpark)
Korbach - Christmas market
Wildwald Vosswinkel - Christmas forest market (S/Sun 2. + 3. Adventswoe.)
Olsberg - Semino Rossi Christmas show (concert hall)
Meschede - THE FOUR YEARS AND OTHER Czech Chamber Philharmonic Prague (City Hall)
Winterberger Winterdorf - the slightly different Christmas market
2. Events in the region
Winterberg - Rennrodel-Weltcup
Willingen - FIS World Cup ski jumping (women & men)
Winterberg - Bob & Skeleton World Cup
Willingen - Mike Leon Grosch in Concert
Willingen - SPRING MY Holiday Festival
Willingen - 28th MountainBike Festival
Kassel - Documenta
Viva Willingen Festival
Willingen - Roland Kaiser Open-Air
Harley-Days Willingen (9th Harley-Davidson motorcycle meeting)
Willingen - Schlagerstarne - Open Air
Warstein - 32nd Montgolfiade (Europe's largest balloon festival)
Sauerland Events - Sport / Culture / Markets / Festivals of A-Z
Here you will find Information about all annual top events in the Sauerland with strong tourist attraction!
Ixs Dirtmaster Festival Winterberg Bob Toboggan World Cup Winterberg FIS World Cup ski jumping Willingen Alphorn Fair Willingen Mountain Bike Festival Willingen Harley-Davidson Bike Week Willingen Viva Willingen ✔ Pop stars Open-Air Willingen Soester Fehde ✔ Montgolfiade Warstein Balve Optimum Riding tournament Reister Markt Medieval festival Altena
Alphornmesse at Ettelsberg in Willingen
Always on the last Sunday in August calls Hüttenwirt Siggi to the Alphorn fair at Ettelsberg in Willingen.
The event is just as legendary as the Hüttenwirt - and one of the largest Alphorn spectacles in Europe. Siggi's call is followed by a Protestant and a Catholic pastor, several thousand visitors as well as alpine horn clubs from the Alps and music groups from all over Europe.
The Alphornmesse has now become a "walking trip" of a special kind - at first contemplative and later cult!
More information... The exact date can be found in the Event calendar!
Balve Optimum
International tender Riding tournament CSI/CDI with top riders from all over the world around the historic Water Castle Wocklum. In many years, at this tournament also the German Championships The VIP lounges are a meeting place for celebrities from business, politics, culture and sports.
More info... Date: May or June – the exact date can be found in the Calendar of events!
Balver Cave - largest cultural cave in Europe
The Balver Cave is a unique natural stage, which seeks its like and is well known far beyond Germany's borders. Neanderthals, Mammut, cave bear and others used the cave in earlier times as a natural shelter. Nowadays, the natural event hall, which is up to 11 m high, 18 m wide and 90 m deep, offers a diverse cultural programme: rock, pop, classical music, musical, Irish folk, acting performances, children's theatre. Many well-known artists of all genres performed here. Visitors enjoy a special cultural experience with exceptional ambience and unique acoustics. The Balver cave is accessible to the disabled. Program, dates and tickets see homepage. Balver CaveLight
58802 Balve
Phone +49 2375-1030
Email: info@festspiele-balver-hoehle.de www.festspiele-balver-hoehle.de
Bike-Week Willingen - Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Meeting
Since 2016 in Willingen every year on the second weekend of July (Do-So) is a very special motorcycle event. More than 15,000 Harley Davidson freaks and visitors have recently made the spectacle the largest Harley meeting between Hamburg and Faaker See.
There are three open-air stages and a Large tent with cooler Live Rockbands, GoGo girls, a Food meal and a large Expo site with more than 50 exhibitors and sales stands for all technical, optical and clothing accessories that make the heart beat any Harley fan faster.
Don't be afraid of the wild guys - this free happening without entrance is absolutely peaceful and therefore also for welcome spectators without a motorcycle a special experience - so on to Willingen to the bike week!
More information... Date: always on the 2nd of July weekend – the exact date can be found in the Event calendar!
Bob Skeleton and Toboggan World Cup races in Winterberg
Every year in Winterberg there is a Bob, Skeleton & Toboggan World Cup race of women and men in the Eisarena. These sports are dominated by the Germans, which is why it is a fascinating experience to cheer on the athletes who are going down the ice channel at up to 140km/h. In 1995 and 2015 the Bob & Skeleton World Championship was also held in Winterberg - 2019 the toboggan world championships. Dates see event calendar. More information... Various dates: the exact event data can be found in the Event calendar!
iXS DirtMasters Freeride Festival in Winterberg
Every year on a weekend of May Freeriders and downhillers meet in Winterberg for the international mountain bike freeride festival with spectacular competitions of all disciplines of this scene. The event is considered one of the most important in Europe in this scene.
Date: May – the exact date can be found in the Event calendar!
Open-air stage Hallenberg
Programme 2021: Passion games The outdoor stage Hallenberg belongs to the largest and most visited in North Rhine-Westphalia With 70 years of tradition. Every year a play for children and one for adults is performed. Located in the beautiful natural setting, the technically professional open-air stage offers 1400 covered seats and is equipped with disabled access. More than 1.1 million visitors from near and far have already seen the performances. In addition to a few professional main actors, the amateur band of the stage is about 140 participants. Almost all heroes of children's stories were already guests in Hallenberg, but there were also numerous productions of plays and musicals that were noticed by Feuilleton. Mary Magdalene. Especially popular and well known are the 10 years that take place Passion gamesThe next one will take place in 2020. It will be played from June to the beginning of September; program, dates and tickets see homepage Freilichtbühne Hallenberg e.V.Open-air platform path 14
59969 Hallenberg
Tel. +49 2984-929190
Info@freilichtbuehne-hallenberg.de www.freilichtbuehne-hallenberg.de
Open-air stage Arnsberg-Herdringen
Programme 2021: Line 1 (adult musical); The Robber Hotzenplotz (Familientherater) The amateur play stage in Arnsberg-Herdringen can be used for a 70 years of tradition The beautiful and professional facility with modern technology and good acoustics below a quarry on the outskirts of the village has approx. 800 covered places. Every season, Freilichtbühne Herdringen e.V. hosts a children's and adults' event with amateur actors and a lot of commitment, which takes place on numerous dates in the summer months from the end of May to the beginning of September. Open-air platform HerdringenLohweg
59757 Arnsberg - Herdringen
Telephone 02932-39140
Fax 02932-9021759
karten@flbh.de www.flbh.de
Karl May Festival in Elspe
Since 1958, 12 million visitors have seen one of the Karl May performances in Lennestadt-Elspe on one of the largest open-air stages in Germany. Winnetou fans from all over Europe came in 1976-1986, when the movie Winnetou Pierre Brice In Elspe the main role played and the Elspe Festival with 400,000 visitors each year became Karl May Mecca. Spectacular is also the Western railway steaming since 1975, which still runs on its own track bed over the stage and through the festival grounds. Elspe has since been an institution among the major European festival stages. The open-air stage has 4000 covered seats. The impressive roof construction is the same style as that of the Olympiapark Munich. Around the open-air stage a western adventure park was created, however without rides, but with themed demonstrations. The approx. 2 hours performances start at about 2.30 pm (inlet from 10 am) and evening events at 8.15 pm (inlet from 5.15 pm). Before the performance, an extensive multi-hour programme of acrobatics, stunts, horses & rodeo show and country music is offered on the festival grounds with authentic Western Saloon both outdoors and in a separate festival hall starting at 10 a.m., giving the festival character and making an Elspe visit a full-day experience. There are also various dining facilities, including a typical "American BBQ" and a replica of "Sloppy Joe"s Coffee Bar". After the event, a guided tour is offered behind the scenes. Hint: If you want to take the whole program with you and want to have lunch there, the extra price for the Elspe-Erlebnis-Pass (EE-Pass) can be interesting for you, because food & drink at long events can go into the money. Included are "all you can eat an drink" in the BBQ and ELT lounge, VIP parking, Meet & Greet, free programme booklet, personal welcome with welcome drink, exclusive seating area. For details please refer to the homepage. It is played from the end of June to the beginning of September on usually 5 days a week. In August there are also evening performances. Program, dates and tickets see homepage Elspe FestivalTo the natural stage 1
57368 Lennestadt - Elspe
Telephone 02721-94440
Fax 02721-20478
tickets@elspe.de www.elspe.de
Mountain Bike Festival in Willingen
Mostly on the 3rd weekend in May Willingen is in the firm hands of the mountain bike scene at largest mountain bike festival in Germany with over 20,000 visitors. In addition to a large Expo, everything that makes the heart of a mountain biker beat faster will be offered. In addition, top races and competitions of all disciplines take place: downhill, enduro, marathon... Participants and fans travel from all over Europe. More information... Date: May – the exact date can be found in the Event calendar!
Rice market
For more than 950 years on the last weekend of August takes place in the village Reiste (B55 between Meschede and Eslohe) of Reister Markt and attracts thousands of visitors.
It is the oldest animal show festival in the Sauerland with a supra-regional reputation. Here, rural tradition is still lived, which makes the festival so popular and unique. In addition to the traditional animal show of cows, horses and small animals, there is also a fair and a large stuff market with about 150 stalls.
More information... Date: usually end of August – the exact date can be found in the Calendar of events!"Schlagerstern" - Sauerland-Open Air in Willingen
It is the successor of the legendary WDR4-Sauerland Open Airwhich every 2 years with 30,000 visitors also The Schlager Woodstock Here all the stars of the Schlager scene appeared, from Howard Carpendale to Roland Kaiser to Helene Fischer. Since 2015 and the exit of the WDR, the event is now held annually on the 3rd weekend of August under the name "Schlagerstern - Sauerland-OpenAir". The program is as always top-occupied - the "who is who" of the German Schlager. More information and program... Date: Saturday before last in August – the exact date can be found in the Event calendar!
Soester Fehde - Medieval festival of superlatives
Every two years - always end of July/beginning of August at odd years - takes place for a whole week this European Medieval Festival of Superlatives instead of 900 contributors from 12 nations and historical background. Soester Fehde The city of Soest claimed its freedom from Archbishop Dietrich of Cologne (1414–1463), who tried to restore his rule.The impressive spectacle with numerous performances, camp, medieval market and much more in the historic old town and the ramparts attracts thousands of visitors and medieval fans from near and far.
More information...
Date: End of July/early August in odd years – the exact date can be found in the Calendar of events!
Spring - My holiday festival during the Easter holidays (Willingen)
The Christian Family Holiday Event in Willingen always from Easter Monday to next SaturdaySPRING is something very special! SPRING is an annual holiday leisure institution and a great event that attracts around 4000 visitors every year from all over Germany, Austria and Switzerland to Willingen. Five-day event is unique with a very special atmosphere in a large community with spirit. SPRING is for everyone and everyone! From young to old, from catholic to charismatic to undecided, from north to south, from solitary to extended family, from peace seekers to action seekers, from male to female. Atheists will also be delighted by this event: everyone and everyone is welcome! Even day guests! SPRING offers programs for 0-100, from baby to grandma. Where is there such a thing? Youth disco in the church and the teens dance on the altar. Everyone and everyone will find a gripping, suitable and personal offer. Guaranteed! There is a varied programme of events for children, teens, families, generation 2.0, adults, seniors, singles and people with disabilities with many workshops, lectures, music, theatre, comedy, readings, active & creative offers, spirituality, adventure, contemplatives for body and soul, games, fun and sports etc. The offers and events take place throughout the day and in the evening in locations spread throughout the whole town. Families split up according to individual interests and come back together again. One gets to know new friends and companions. Children are also well kept in the events without parents. There are day tickets or the 5-day pass. If you want to experience really great Easter holidays with your family, book this event! SPRING touches... Organizer: Deutsche Evangelische Allianz Esplanade 5-10a07422 Bad Blankenburg Fon +49 36741 21210
info@meinspring.de www.meinspring.de
Viva Willingen Festival
This event usually takes place at the same time. Mid-June is becoming more popular from year to year. Starting in 2012 with 5,000 visitors, over 20,000 young people are now celebrating a huge good mood open-air party with the "Stars of the Shooter". More information and program... Date: in June – the exact date can be found in Event calendar!
World Cup ski jumping in Willingen
Over 50,000 visitors come to the now most visited ski jumping event in the worldif on three days in winter the world elite of ski jumping is at Willingen on the largest big hill in the world.
Then the place turns into a party happening, which is looking for at international sporting events of its kind. At the opening party on Friday evening there is a high-altitude fireworks and a top-class musical live special guest on the open-air stage, who were already there: Glass Beading, Scooter, Felix Jähn...
The quarters around Willingen are already booked out early on - who therefore wants to stay there should be on Zack.
More information and tickets... Date: in January or February – the exact date can be found in the Event calendar!
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Spring - My holiday festival Willingen
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Bike-Week Willingen
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Alphornmesse Willingen
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Soester fehde - Medieval spectacle
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"Schlagersterne" Sauerland Open-Air Willingen
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Balve Optimum
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Montgolfiade Warstein
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