Atmospheric summer evenings on the market: the 25th Leipzig Wine Festival invites you to linger in the city center from 2 to 13 July. For the first time, the festival will extend beyond the market and into Petersstraße. The two Saxon wine princesses Janine Merkel and Antje Peschel will open the festival on July 2 at 5 pm on the market stage. All Leipzig residents are cordially invited to attend.
"After last year's EURO-related excursion to the Whitsun weekend, we have switched back to our 'regular date' this year. Word of the wine festival has now spread in winegrowing circles and we have a significant increase in applicants this year. We are using this demand to extend the area of the wine festival into the adjacent Peterstraße," says Dr. Walter Ebert, Head of the Market Office.
For the first time, the number of applicants so clearly exceeds the capacity of the marketplace that the wine festival will be larger so that no trader has to cancel. The wine festival will therefore go beyond the boundaries of the market square and extend into the Petersstraße area close to the market. Six stands will be placed there, which, in combination with the seating or a picnic blanket on the green area, will create completely new aspects.
