Townfolk's Marksmanship Festival

This is when the city celebrates its great Townsfolks' Marksmanship Fair, for which it regularly expects more than a million visitors. Some 150,000 citizens, an even greater number of visitors from near and far, and 6,000 marksmen, look forward to high jinks in the city centre, on the shooting match grounds, and in the fairground square, at this, the biggest marksmen's fair held on the Lower Rhine.

Dates: 24 – 28 August 2012

Tickets for the Stands / Information

Office of the Neusser Bürger-Schützen-Verein e.V.

Oberstraße 60
41460 Neuss
Phone: +49(0)2131-217070
(Open from mid-July until the Fair)

Tourist Information Neuss

Rathausarkaden
Büchel 6
41460 Neuss
Phone: +49(0)2131-4037795
Fax: +49(0)2131-4037797
Internet: www.neuss-marketing.de
E-Mail: tourist-info@neuss-marketing.de

Opening hours:
Monday to Friday 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m., and 2:30 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Friday:

5 p.m.

Opening of the fairground

Saturday:

12 noon

Opening of the Schützenfest

5 p.m.

Remembrance of the Dead on the Market Square

5.10 p.m.

Parade of the Corps of Drums

8.45 p.m.

Torchlight procession through Neuss city centre with more than 70 giant torches

Sunday:

8.10 a.m.

Festive High Mass in St. Quirinus's Cathedral

10.10 a.m.

Royal Parade A brilliantly colourful march-past by the 4,000 and more men of the Marksmen's Regiment with over 1,000 musicians of the music corps and corps of drums, and the procession of the "Hönesse" (horns filled with flowers).

4.15 p.m.

Festive parade through the city centre

7 p.m.

Flag throwing and open-air concert on the Market Square

9 p.m.

Grenadiers’ Ball

Monday:

10.30 a.m.

Morning music in the marquee (Entrance free)

3.15 p.m.

Festive parade through Neuss city centre

7.30 p.m.

Withdrawal of the Regiment and Review by the Colonel

9 p.m.

Hunters' Ball

Tuesday:

3 p.m.

Festive parade through Neuss city centre

6.15 p.m.

Royal Shoot-the-Bird contest on the Fairground

7.45 p.m.

Ceremonial Tattoo in the marquee

8.30 p.m.

Festive parade with the new Schützenkönig (Champion Marksman)

10.30 p.m.

Grand concluding firework display on the Fairground

After the processions there will be open-air concerts, prize shoot-the-bird contests, ring spearing, dancing, and children's entertainments.