Rose Festival - Steinfurth celebrates roses with multi-day festival
Flower Festival in the Bad Nauheim neighborhood of Steinfurth: This place, known as Rosendorf, will celebrate its 48th Rosenfest from this Friday to Sunday. The organizers expect about 40,000 female visitors and male visitors for these biennial celebrations. On the program are a rose exhibition, performances by bands, and on Sunday, a rose parade with a float adorned with over 100,000 flowers.
The festival aims to highlight the long tradition of rose cultivation in Steinfurth. Families have been growing roses there for 150 years. Steinfurth refers to itself as Germany's oldest rose village. The history of rose cultivation began in this Wetterau town in 1868 with knowledge brought from England about the plant. This business soon flourished: Around the turn of the century, several dozen families took up rose cultivation, and by 1930, there were over 200 businesses. By 1970, up to 14 million plants were grown there. To this day, roses are still grown in the village, although the local rose museum notes that economically, it is not as significant as it once was.
The neighborhood of Steinfurth, located in Bad Nauheim, Hesse, is famously known as Rosendorf due to its long-standing tradition of rose cultivation. This communal love for agriculture has been a part of the neighborhood's identity for over 150 years, making Steinfurth proudly dubbed as Germany's oldest rose village. On leisurely Sundays, residents and tourists alike can visit the local rose museum to learn about the history of rose cultivation, which started in the 19th century due to knowledge transferred from England. Despite the decline in its economic significance, the neighborhood still hosts the biennial Flower Festival, attracting thousands of visitors, including those from neighboring cities, to enjoy the culture, music performances, and the grand rose parade with over 100,000 flowers.
