Hessen: No boredom at Pentecost

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Open air concerts, car cabaret or art in the garden, in Hesse many events lure outside at Pentecost. Here is a selection.

Whether open-air concerts, car cabaret or art in the garden: Despite the corona restrictions, nobody has to be bored at Pentecost. Amusement parks, zoos, museums and excursion venues are almost all open again, albeit with restrictions. And if you still want to avoid large crowds of people, you can go hiking or cycling. The “Summer in Hessen” website has recently given an overview of leisure activities in Hesse.

Tiergarten in Frankfurt and Rhein-Main
The zoos attract special attractions at Pentecost. During the corona shutdown, many animals were given offspring. At Frankfurt Zoo, for example, the Addax antelope mother Tommie gave birth to a lovable-looking hunk. And in the Vivarium Darmstadt, the long-awaited offspring of the Böhm zebras have arrived. The following applies to all animal parks: To ensure that visitors do not get too close, their number is limited. In the Frankfurt Zoo, tickets can therefore only be booked online and for a certain time frame. In the Opel Zoo in Kronberg there are tickets at the cash desk and there is no time limit for the visit. However, families have to be prepared for waiting times so that the number of 1000 visitors is not exceeded.

(Open air) museums in Rhein-Main
Whether the Hessenpark in Neu-Anspach, the Saalburg in Bad Homburg, the Keltenwelt am Glauberg: the open-air museums are open during Pentecost, albeit with a limited offer. In the Hessenpark, for example, a large part of the half-timbered buildings cannot be entered because narrow doors and narrow corridors prevent compliance with the distance rules. And the number of visitors is limited in all museums. Some have reduced their admission prices due to the reduced offer. In the Hessenpark, for example, children do not have to pay admission, in the Saalburg the prices for everyone are reduced. Guided tours or programs are usually not offered. In the Freudenberg Castle in Wiesbaden, the field of experience in the castle park is open. A tour is offered at 2 p.m. on Pentecost Sunday. The Messel pit in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district is still closed.

Interactive map of excursion destinations in Hesse
If you want to go on an excursion or hike, you can find an overview of excursion destinations and leisure activities in Hesse on “Summer in Hesse”, a new service page on the Internet that was created on the initiative of the Hessian Tourism Association, the Hesse Agency and the Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs . On an interactive map, you can click on a wide variety of offers under sections such as “Museums”, “Sights” or “Outdoor Activities”, each of which has a photo and a short explanatory text. Via links to the organizers, users can also find out about possible corona-related restrictions.

www.sommerinhessen.de

“Tai Chi outdoors” in Frankfurt
In Tai Chi, slow and gentle sequences of movements together with breathing exercises are supposed to bring the body into balance. If you want to get to know this form of shadow boxing developed in the Chinese empire, you can do so on Pentecost Saturday in Grüneburgpark in Frankfurt. The Friends of Art, Culture and Happy Awakening invites you to a free tai chi introduction outdoors from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The meeting point is the café in the park. If you discover your love for this sport at the trial lesson, you can then book a course that will continue until August 16 at the same place and at the same time.

www.taichi-frankfurt-badnauheim.de

Open air concerts in Bad Homburg, Eppstein
and Frankfurt
Rhythm’n’Blues and Cajun can be heard on Pentecost Saturday in the beer garden of the café and restaurant “Wunderbar Weite Welt”, at Stadtbahnhof 1, in Eppstein during a Louisiana night. The New Orleans-born musician Helt Oncale makes music there from 7 p.m. In the summer garden of Batschkapp, Gwinnerstrasse 5 in Frankfurt, the “Gastone Trio” will play on Saturday. The summer garden is open from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Oldies, operetta melodies, classics, pop music and children’s songs will resound in the Bad Homburger Kurpark on Pentecost Sunday from 3 p.m. The course ensemble under its director Mike Mihajlovic returns to the stage in the bandstand at the orangery after the forced break. There is no concert on Whit Monday, thereafter from Tuesday to Sunday from 3 p.m. Admission to all concerts is free.

3D black light mini golf in Frankfurt
If you are looking for a special challenge when playing mini golf, you should try a game on the black light heroes’ 3D black light mini golf course in Frankfurt, which has been open since the first week of May. The 18 holes at Berger Straße 138 don’t have much in common with the classic miniature golf courses. The players who wear 3D glasses are faked by fluorescent colors and black light to create pathways and obstacles that do not exist in reality. From Pentecost Saturday to Monday, the lifts are open from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. Due to the corona restrictions, the black light heroes ask for reservations.

www.schwarzlichthelden.de

Car cabaret in Frankfurt
The Century Hall in Frankfurt invites you to the car cabaret over the Whitsun holidays. On Saturday and Sunday, the comedian Bülent Ceylan turns into a “fun object” on the stage in the parking lot from 8:00 p.m., as the title of his current program, and draws about other “fun objects”. Following the model of the drive-in cinema, spectators can follow it from the seats of their cars at Pfaffenwiese 301. The cabaret evening on Saturday is already sold out, but tickets are still available for Pentecost Sunday. Bastian Bielendorfer and Reinhard Remfort, the creators of “Alliteration Am Arsch”, one of the most successful German podcasts, will record their AAA podcast on stage on Monday from 8pm. Tickets for the events mentioned are available online.

www.jahrhunderthalle.de/StageDrive

View into pottery and ceramic workshops
Potters and ceramists in Hessen will be inviting you to take a look at their workshops in the coming weeks. The “Saturday Gallery” begins on May 30 today, as the Ceramic Hessen Association announces. On this day, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., the following workshops and studios in Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main region will open their doors: Porcelain workshop Christine Riemann, Frankfurt, www.riemann-keramik.de; McKiew studio for fine arts and body awareness, Frankfurt, mckiew.de; Sculptures made of clay Stina Tummel, Flörsheim, www.stina-tummel.de and the ceramics workshop Elisabeth Reuter, Friedberg, www.keramikgalerie-friedberg.de. The campaign runs until Saturday, June 27. Information on all Hessian workshops and studios can be found online on the site

keramik-hessen.de

Art in the garden of the Rüsselsheim Opelvillen
The Opelvillen in Rüsselsheim invite you to a family outing, where the little ones can learn something about contemporary art. Young artists from the surrounding art academies in Mainz, Frankfurt and Offenbach will be showing their work there in the coming weeks under the motto “lock / outsourced laboratory”. Anna Hofmann, who is studying at the Offenbach University of Design, will kick off on Pentecost Sunday. She presents her art installation “Serviervorschlag”. At 4 p.m. the young artist takes a seat in the garden on the yellow sofa of the museum for an artist talk. Visitors can listen to her at a picnic. However, you must bring your own drinks and food, as the exhibition house is prohibited from serving. The event is free of charge.

On the go with the camera – HR2 photo competition
Those who enjoy taking photos can go on a literary search for traces over the Pentecost weekend. At the HR2 photo competition “Mein Bild zum Buch”, amateur photographers are invited to send in pictures with a reference to the Hesse literature by November 25th at the latest. The relationship with Hesse is broad. The work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, for example, is considered to be Hessian according to the conditions of participation, even if the poet prince spent most of his life in Weimar. And also books that have a special connection to Hesse, for example because a protagonist is a fan of Eintrach Frankfurt, count.

www.hr2.de

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