Darmstadt's Heinerfest is the city's traditional fair in the city centre, every year on the first weekend of July. The 68th Heinerfest invites you all from 28. June to 2. July to come to the city centre, enjoy lots of attractions and entertainment around Darmstadt's castle, on the market square, Karolinenplatz and  up the Landgraf-Georg-Straße.

Spending your day in Darmstadt and your smartphone's battery is running low? Fully charged power banks can be borrowed in the Darmstadt Shop on Luisenplatz. Rental fee is 15 € and the power bank can be returned within one week if you do not need it anymore. Or keep using it, to keep your phone or tablet going wherever you go.

With the IntercityHotel app, guests can use the world's fastest way from booking directly into the hotel room. Without waiting at the reception, guests can enter their room with their digital key on the smartphone immediately after arrival - and check out the same way.

The app is available for iOS and Android. Further information the links to the app stores:here.

The "Datterich's weekly market" offers on every first Saturday in the month numerous actions for shopping and staying at the Darmstadt weekly market. In addition to the fresh products from the region, visitors can expect the recipe of the month, a "green reading corner from the book guild on the market square, a painting and craft offer for children and the Datterich in person

On the 5th of May the visitors can expect a wine stand and the Datterich in person invites to the tasting of different sorts of white wine and Riesling sparkling wine. The market feeders present their special cheese specialties matching selected wines. So the Darmstadt weekly market is not only suitable for purchasing regional products, but also invites you to a pleasant Saturday morning with a special selection of cheese and wine.

At the Darmstadt weekly market, it is now easy to determine which foods have grown in the vicinity and had short transport routes. Food from rural districts up to 50 kilometers away receive the award "grow here". In the case of processed foods, this applies if the main ingredient comes from the region and the processing has also taken place there.

Why not discover the city with a guided tour? Get a general overview of the city with "Darmstadt at a glance", every Sunday at 11 am. And the Museum Artists' Colony Darmstadt offers english tours every 1st Thursday of the month.

The brochure "Darmstadt guided tours 2018/2019" contains all topics and dates of public tours until March 2019. Most tours are in German only, but there are also several tours in english and various other languages on pages 9, 16, 22 and 36.

You can book your ticket online, at the Darmstadt Shop at Luisenplatz or with many tours rigth at the spot with the tour guide.

Discover Darmstadt's city centre interacitve: with the new 360° tour "Watch my city". Beside taking a tour through the pedestrian zone, you can also visit some of the shops and restaurants. Start your tour here.