Merseburger Schlossfestspiele

The festival is now taking place for the third time in this context and in a completely new guise around the Merseburg Palace and the Palace Garden. The actual castle festival, which has been held 50 times in the past until 2019, is celebrating its debut as the Merseburg Castle Festival 2021 when it was not at all expected that a festival could be held due to a pandemic.
The Merseburg Castle Festival took the hearts of music and medieval fans by storm and the circumstances of the time made the festival a crowd favorite. The Castle Festival offers the visitor a very unique and at the same time special charm, which knows how to convince with its historically beautiful location between the cathedral, castle and castle garden.

In 2021, the residents of the city were certainly amazed when countless people dressed in black made their way towards the castle, because many wore the words: "In Extremo" on their clothing, because the band was part of the festival's line-up at the time.
Right from the start, the organizers of the city of Merseburg focused on an extensive range of top-class music, as well-known bands have been able to attract well-known bands to the city to this day, creating an unforgettable festival experience. The fans of the bands are only too happy to accept the offer, not least because the line-up of the festival has always included bands like Lord of the Lost, In Extremo, Megaherz, Heldmaschine, Tanzwut, The Beautx of Gemina, Schandmaul and Saltatio Mortis just to name a few, because the list of headliners goes on and on.

But bands alone don't make a festival, the Merseburg and organizers know that too, because what was still missing?

Really a medieval spectacle with market stalls that invite you to shop. Countless jugglers, fire shows and puppet shows, but also all sorts of comedians and guilds dressed in medieval costumes, which you could look over the shoulder of their medieval crafts, can be found in the castle garden.
For the special medieval flair, knight camps also offer armor fans a place to go and sinister fellows such as "The Hell Wardens" teach visitors to fear. Well, almost, laughs, if you were nice, the troupe of jugglers, often dressed as devils, also gave one or the other souvenir photo.
The guards from hell, who, by the way, put a lot of effort into their costumes, can also be found at a wide variety of events in the country, so it's worth keeping an eye out for.

SONNTAG, 11.06.2023 Heimataerde - Unzucht - Mr. Hurley & die Pulveraffen - D´Artagnan
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This year, bands such as Faun and Haggefug will provide brilliant music from the Middle Ages. Vroudenspil, Koenig and The Kinkspipers. The band Tvinna sets special accents, because their style can be described as ritual, electronically amplified folk metal. The musical focus is on polyphonic female singing. The Swiss band Eluveite, on the other hand, provides a fresh mix of Celtic music combined with metal sounds, which is why they can be assigned to Celtic metal.
Schwarzer Engel and Unzucht und Erdling, on the other hand, bring the right Dark Metal sound to the festival for metal fans, while Hurley und die Pulveraffen has hearty seaman sounds ready for the audience.