There are already a few leisure activities, but these are still rather restrained implemented. For example, there is the "Summer in the City" campaign at various places in the city, which is intended to whet the appetite for larger festivals as a mini-fair, so to speak. It is supposed to get bigger soon, but before that there is another cancellation: contrary to earlier plans, the popular Mainfest will not take place in 2021. As Mayor Peter Feldmann and Thomas Feda, managing director of the municipal Tourismus+Congress GmbH Frankfurt am Main (TCF), announced, the popular folk festival cannot be realized despite the move to the last weekend in August due to the currently very strict regulations.
However, there is also good news for all funfair fans: already from September 3 - and thus one week earlier than previously planned - the Dippemess is to take place in a special edition: The Volksfest classic, which has now already had to be cancelled three times, is to take place on its return as a temporary amusement park - earlier, longer and at least as cult as ever. For 17 days, the "Dippemess Park" will then invite visitors to the festival site on Ratsweg: Look. Everything, of course, strictly corona-compliant, which means, for example, with contact tracking in the outdoor gastronomic areas.
Mayor Peter Feldmann is hopeful and says: "Snacking on cotton candy, a round on the carousel or bumper cars - for far too long, that only existed in old photos. Now we are finally looking forward again. The Dippemess will become Dippemess XXL as 'Dippemess Park'! I think small and large Volksfest friends have really earned this."
The "Dippemess Park" is part of the Frankfurt plan to revitalize Frankfurt's city center, from which especially retail and gastronomy should benefit. And the Dippemess is only the beginning in the area of festivals. The Christmas market is also set to return in 2021, with an extension of one week also planned (15.11. - 22.12.2021). "At the sight of the empty Römerberg shortly before the last festival, many felt it: there are not a few stalls missing, there is a lack of Christmas atmosphere. We want to make up for that," says Feldmann. The prerequisite, of course, is that the infection makes such events possible. We keep our fingers crossed for all of us.
