Furth_im_Wald

Furth im Wald

Furth im Wald

Town in Bavaria, Germany

Furth im Wald (in Czech Brod nad Lesy, resp. Bavorský Brod) is a town in Bavaria, Germany, near the Czech border in the Bavarian Forest, 16 kilometres (9.9 miles) northeast of Cham, and 17 kilometres (11 miles) southwest of Domažlice. The city is known as Drachenstadt (Dragon City), a reference to Furth im Wald's annual Drachenstich (Slaying of the Dragon) play. The Drachenstich, originally part of a Corpus Christi procession, was first mentioned in 1590. As one of the oldest folk plays in the German language, each year actors re-enact the legend of Saint George slaying the dragon.[3] In 2010, the play became notable for using the world's largest walking robot, an animatronic dragon called Tradinno.

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Twin towns

Furth im Wald is twinned with:

Photographs from the Drachenstich[4]

Sons and daughters of the town

Memorial plate Aloys Fischer in Furth

References

  1. [1]
    Liste der ersten Bürgermeister/Oberbürgermeister in kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, 15 July 2021.
  2. [2]
    Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011) (Hilfe dazu).
  3. [3]
    "Drachenstich Festspiele". Drachenstich-Festspiele e.V. Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  4. [4]
    Bohnenstengel, A. (2002): Bayern, Page 132–139


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