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The German Fest in Milwaukee is a great place to celebrate the German heritage and festivities with friends and family with your affordable rent a car Milwaukee.

Dance the night away

Schafflertanz or the Barrel Makers Dance will be performed during the festival, which you can catch with your affordable rent a car Milwaukee. The Schafflertanz is thousands of years old and is one of the oldest folk dances still performed today. The barrels symbolize all the foods that were shipped in barrels during the Middle Ages. The dance pays tribute to the Schafflers who after the plague in the early 1500’s, were the first to venture outside and encourage the citizens of Munich by dancing through the streets.

Explore the German culture and the history of Milwaukee

The German Fest also presents a program based on the Roman influence on the German culture, its agriculture, church, cities, and law. As you learn about this with your affordable rent a car Milwaukee, you can visit the Deutsches Auswander Museum (German Immigration Museum) in the Cultural Village and check out records and ship manifests for family members free of charge. The Passport Program is an activity for children to go to listed booths in the Culture Tent to find out who famous German-Americans are and receive stickers in their passports and receive small prizes. A 5k run/walk for the hungry and Dachsund races are some additional activities visitors can participate in.

Eat, drink, and be merry

The German Fest promotes large amounts of food and beer to be consumed- as the Germans did! Food items include: bienenstich (tradition german coffeecake), frankfurter, gulasch (Beef stew), herring, bratherring (fried herring), kaffee (Coffee), kasseker rippchen (smoked pork chops), knoedel (dumpling), konditorei (pastry shop), kuchen (cake), kartoffel and pfannkuchen (potato pancakes and sausage), pizza, rollbraten (roasted pork loin), sauerkraut, schnitzel, schwarzwaelder kirschtorte (black forest cherry cheese cake), spanferkel (roasted whole pig), strudel, torte cake, wurst (sausage).

Location:

Milwaukee’s Lakefront- Henry W. Maier Festival Park with your affordable rent a car Milwaukee

Date (2008):
July 24th Thursday 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
July 25th Friday 3:00PM- 12:00 AM
July 26th Saturday 12:00 PM- 12:00 AM
July 27th Sunday 12:00 PM- 10:00 PM
Ticket Price (2008): Advance Sale: $10.00 each, Gate Ticket: 13.00 each, Seniors and Students: $7.00 each (req. proper identification)

For more information please see: http://www.germanfest.com/