Darmstädter Weinfest
Wine festival with tradition
What few people know: Where the Artists' Colony Mathildenhöhe stands today, wine was grown for centuries. Darmstadt in southern Hesse, now an internationally renowned centre for science and art, has been surrounded by vineyards since the Middle Ages at the latest. A very special tribute to the wine-growing tradition, which is now being revived in the city, is the Darmstadt Wine Festival, which has been taking place for almost 40 years.
Also special: vintners from five different wine regions, from the Hessian Bergstrasse, Rheinhessen, the Rheingau and the Palatinate as well as from the Nahe will be taking part.
On the occasion of the Darmstadt Wine Festival, the shops in the city centre will be open on Sunday from 1 to 6 pm.
Save the date for 2025:
4. to 7. September 2025
Organ concert at the Wine Festival
Saturday, 6.9.2025, 6 p.m.
Concert ‘Im Rausch der Klänge’; venue: St. Ludwig
Christian Segmehl, one of Germany's most sought-after saxophonists, and Johannes Mayr, cathedral organist in Stuttgart, will be performing at this year's wine festival concert in St Ludwig's. A cheerful and festive programme for this particularly appealing combination of instruments promises a refreshing hour in the church at the end of the wine festival mile.
Admission free, donations requested.
Red Riesling
Did you know that there is "Red Riesling" at the Bergstraße? The Riesling-grape in its original version had a reddish skin. Only in the course of time did it become brighter.But there is a winegrowing area in Germany where the tradition is kept alive: this is the Hessische Bergstraße. Almost ten wineries are there, which still today - and even strengthened again! - cultivate and offer Red Riesling. For more information, please visit the website "Home of Red Riesling".
Sponsor of the Darmstadt Wine Festival
