Historical peasants' market
Freshly harvested
On Saturday mornings, the Frundsberg Festival dedicates itself completely to the vivid market live of peasants and craftsmen as it might have taken place in Mindelheim 500 years before. Those who do make it out of bed, can be sure to witness a very special spectacle. Accompanied by a jolly marching tune played by pipers and drummers, the lordship himself, Georg von Frundsberg and his wife Anna von Lodron, parade from the “Haberntor” (today’s main gateway) into the town. They are followed by the peasants together with their animals, an enormous ox, donkeys, geese, hens, sheep and goats, the workers equipped with rakes, threshers, wheelbarrows and charmingly decorated carts. Medieval music and dancers accompany the parade joined by the so-called “Marketenderinnen” (female camp followers) whose aim is to sell the many items they were able to “seize” from the dead on the battlefields. A second procession with craftsmen then moves along the Maximilianstraße from the “Schnäbelinstor” or “Klostertor” (today’s lower gate) towards their camp near St. Stephan’s Church, and the scene is completed by a medieval market on the town square.
