Auer Dult

The Auer Dult is a traditional fair in Munich, combining a market and a German style folk festival.

It takes place three times per year on the Mariahilfplatz in the Munich district of Au, fuelled by around three hundred traders and showmen, by the rule.

In contrast to the Oktoberfest and the Munich Spring Festival (Münchner Frühlingsfest), the Auer Dult is much less touristy, but way more local, discreet and calm.

In 1796 Elector Karl Theodor bestowed on the nearby suburb of Au, located on a floodplain opposite town (i.e., east of the Isar) and a small village at the time, the right to hold a fair (Dult) of its own twice a year.

Visitors find a chairoplane, a child's roundabout, a swing boat, a horse riding track, dodgems and shooting galleries.