Cultural+Characteristics

__**Waeldchestag Folk Festival**__ Held every Whitsuntide (the first few days after Whitsunday, or Pentecost) in the forest area surrounding Frankfurt, Germany's Waeldchestag(Forest Day) Folk Festival features food and drink, music, stage productions, garden displays, and other events for the whole family. The precise origins of the celebration are unclear, but it is thought that as early as 1300, milkmaids and farmhands—after driving cattle to pasture—would celebrate Whitsuntide with a picnic. Today's event is a major celebration that combines old traditions with modern popular culture.

__**Dippemess**__ Every year in March and April, the city of Frankfurt hosts the //Dippemess//, a festival of gargantuan proportions. The fair dates back to the 14th century, when vendors gathered to sell their //dippe//, or ceramic pots. Today, more than 2 million visitors catch their thrills on acres of carnival rides including fanciful carousels and enjoy local fare and goods from the market stalls. Visitors keep warm in the crisp spring air by sipping apple wine, a Frankfurt specialty, from earthenware jugs. One of Germany's favorite Eastertime events, the open-air fair is marked at its opening and closing by lavish fireworks displays.

**__Alter Jüdischer Friedhof__ (Old Jewish Cemetery)** Lies within the old Jewish Quarter near Börneplatz, is nearly all that is left of the once thriving Jewish community in Frankfurt. The victim of Nazi vandalism, it stands as a grim reminder of what was, and what should never happen again. Actively used between the 1200s–1800s, entry is not "free." To prevent further vandalism, a visit will cost you a piece of personal identification (like a passport). In return, the caretaker will give you the key. When you are finished, return to the caretaker's, where you may exchange the key for your identification. That this ritual is necessary saddened me almost as much as the cemetery itself. The three majors sports in Frankfurt are soccer, icehockey, and basketball. Soccer in Frankfurt is taken very serious. The team in Frankfurt is called Eintracht Frankfurt. The most historic sport in Frankfurt is rowing. Rowing has been a long standing tradition in Frankfurt. Rowing ws first a folk culture in Germany, but it became a popular culture to the world.

All of these are examples of folk culture in a region. These are examples of a folk culture because they only are in a homogeneous groups and it only stay in Frankfurt, Germany.