The festival tents must be gone by November 21st at the latest. The Oktoberfest vouchers sometimes take longer to redeem.
Munich – The tents stand there peacefully, as if they were taking a break from the hustle and bustle. The evening sun falls on the roofs, all around on the Theresienwiese in Munich you can see grass again – it is being cut down. Everything has to be gone and empty by November 21st. And where the Winter Tollwood, which is currently under construction, wants to spread, there must be a clear path by October 31st.
Every Oktoberfest host dismantles his tent himself, whereby the conditions of the economic department apply: “The respective stand must be cleaned and repaired and handed over to the management of the department for labor and economics,” explains spokeswoman Maren Kowitz. “Installations in the terrain, such as foundations and basins, must be removed and all excavations and holes must be eliminated.”
Festival tents spend the winter near Augsburg
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It’s quite a race for the innkeepers; they only have six weeks to clean up. “But the biggest challenge,” says Wirte spokesman Peter Inselkammer, “is to pack everything so that you can unpack it again next year in the correct order.” According to the Inselkammer, it takes around 80 shipping containers to pack up such a festival tent, “and that’s without the around 20 steel beams and the tent tarpaulins. They are transported separately.” After dismantling, trucks drive most of the tents to the company that manufactured them, to Pletschacher in Dasing near Augsburg. They are stored there for the rest of the year.
Top losses at the Oktoberfest: jacket and hat
According to the economic department, nothing that visitors lost was found under the tents and the floors are tight. Different in the tents! The Oktoberfest lost property office collected more than 4,500 items this year. Most of them are items of clothing, for example jackets or hats. But jewelry, cell phones and headphones also end up in abundance on the wooden floor. After the Oktoberfest, the lost property will be brought to the lost property office on Implerstrasse. There they will be sorted and laid out for collection in a special Oktoberfest department from November 17th to January 23rd.
Vouchers can be fully redeemed
What is often left over from the Oktoberfest are beer and chicken vouchers. The respective hosts are obliged to redeem them in full even after the Oktoberfest or to refund the full amount of the voucher. The vouchers are valid for different lengths depending on the Wiesnwirt. For example, Augustiner stamps can be redeemed until November 1st in the Augustiner headquarters on Neuhauserstrasse, stamps for the Marstall until December 31st in the Leger restaurant at the cathedral. Some innkeepers allow you to redeem in several restaurants, the Ochsenbraterei, for example, in seven. An overview can be found here on tz.de.
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