Hamburger Dom
The Hamburger Dom[1] is a large fair held at the Heiligengeistfeld fair ground in central Hamburg, Germany. With three fairs (spring, summer and winter) per year it is the biggest and the longest fair throughout Germany and attracts
approximately ten million visitors per year.[
Hamburger Dom puts on an impressive firework display at the Heiligengeistfeld, that can be seen across most of the city, every Friday that it runs at 22:30 hrs.
On the Winterdom 2021 was a laser-show set up for the first time. [2]
History
A market in or in front of
- Winterdom or Dommarkt (winter fair or cathedral market): 30 days in late autumn
- Sommerdom or Hummelfest (summer fair or Hummel market):[4] since 1947: 31 days during summer
- Frühlingsdom (spring fair): since 1948, 30 days in spring
On 14 August 1981, a crane collided with the Skylab carousel at the fair, killing seven and injuring fifteen.[5][6]
References
- ^ The German term Dom (Italian: Duomo) is the synecdoche, used - pars pro toto - for most persisting or former collegiate churches and cathedrals alike. Therefore the uniform translation of this term into English as cathedral is correct in this case, but in many other cases it is inappropriate.
- ^ "Hamburger DOM – Norddeutschlands größter Jahrmarkt | Hamburg Tourismus".
- ISBN 3-8319-0179-1.
- ^ Hummel is the name of an Hamburg original see Johann Wilhelm Bentz
- ^ Germany, SPIEGEL ONLINE, Hamburg (26 June 2009). "Life Is a Rollercoaster: The Downfall of a Funfair Family". Spiegel Online. Archived from the original on 21 August 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "14.08.1981: Der Tag, an dem der Dom zur Todesfalle wurde". MOPO.de (in German). Archived from the original on 20 March 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
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