Mainfest

The Mainfest on the Mainkai, Fahrtor and Römerberg is one of Frankfurt's oldest public festivals. Today, the Mainfest with its large summer gardens on the banks of the Main is a great way to experience the river and its banks.

The history of the Frankfurt Mainfest
The consecration of the Dreikönigskirche church on 23 July 1340 is considered the origin of the Mainfest. Fishermen and boatmen derived their fishing festival from this, with which they paid homage to "their river and its bounty". They celebrated with "ox on a spit", let wine flow from the fountain of justice and enjoyed passion plays performed by schoolchildren in "Himmelreich huts", goose plucking, duck catching by fishermen, firecracker shooting, fireworks and colourful parade rides along the banks of the Main in processions of four and six people.
On the occasion of the inauguration of the new "Old Bridge", people remembered the old Main festivals and once again organised an annual festival on the Main. Interrupted by the destruction of the Second World War, the then Lord Mayor Dr Walter Kolb continued the tradition. Construction work required the Mainfest to move briefly to the Ostpark, but after returning from its exile there to Römerberg and the banks of the Main in 1973, the Mainfest celebrated a sensational comeback.

Fischerstechen with the Schaustellerverband Frankfurt Rhein-Main e. V. (Frankfurt Rhine-Main Showmen's Association) and 

Fischerstechen with the Schaustellerverband Frankfurt Rhein-Main e. V. (Frankfurt Rhine-Main Showmen's Association). V. and Frankfurter Fischer- und Schifferzunft
Fischerstechen is the name given to an old fishing custom. Originally, the Fischerstechen was a competition between fishermen for the best places at the fish market. Today, it is an entertainment contest.
It is a competition between two teams competing against each other on (rowing) boats. The aim is usually to push the members of the other team off their boats into the water with the help of a spear.