Vierländer Strawberry Festival

Local associations, countrywomen, schools, music groups, orchestras, traditional costume groups, plattsnackers, craftsmen, thatchers, nature conservationists, vintage car owners, tractor clubs and others present their homeland and their skills with a great deal of love and voluntary commitment.

The unique Vier- und Marschlande landscape lies between the Elbe and Bille rivers in the south-east of Hamburg. Germany's largest vegetable and flower-growing region, characterized by long dykes, canals and farmhouses and half-timbered houses, is also the origin of the "German strawberry", which was first cultivated here on a large scale in 1693. It brought wealth to the Vierland horticulturalists and was soon nicknamed the "gold of the Vierlande". A reason for the Rieck Haus open-air museum to pay a fitting tribute to the strawberry in the form of a festival! Since 1999, the museum has organized the popular Strawberry Festival every year in June.