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Rudolstadt Bird Shooting

Name: Rudolstadt Bird Shooting
Start: 2025-08-15T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-08-15
Location: Germany

Rudolstadt Bird Shooting is held on August 15. This event in the second decade of the month August is annual.

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The Rudolstadt bird shooting is a folk festival in Rudolstadt, Thuringia. It developed from a shooting competition held for the first time on August 28, 1722, in which a wooden bird was shot at with a crossbow. The festival describes itself as Thuringia's biggest carnival and attracts around half a million visitors every year. The fairground on the Bleichwiese is home to 75 fairground attractions, ranging from an 80-metre-high chain carousel to a bratwurst stand.

This year's thousand meter long fairground mile with selected showmen and showwomen invites you to once again celebrate peacefully and happily together.

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Feast day of the Assumption of Mary on August 15 (Christian feast day, one of the Catholic holy days of obligation a public holiday in Austria, Belgium, Benin, Bosnia, Burundi, Cameroon, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Italy, Ivory Coast, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malta, Mauritius, Monaco, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Seychelles, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanuatu);