Tens of thousands of visitors came to the Lake Night Festival in Konstanz on Saturday. The highlight of the evening was the spectacular musical fireworks display that was set off from ships on Lake Constance.
Street musicians, fire artists and dancers transformed the Konstanz lakeshore into a large open-air stage on Saturday: The Konstanz Lake Night Festival was celebrated on and in the water. The sparkling highlight in the late evening was traditionally the music-synchronized fireworks display. It is considered one of the largest lake fireworks displays in Europe. Tens of thousands of people came to the festival grounds in Konstanz.
Here you can watch the entire fireworks display for the Seenachtfest 2024 in full length:
Highlight of the Seenachtfest: The big musical fireworks display
In 2024, the neighboring cities of Konstanz and Kreuzlingen (Switzerland) will once again stage the magic of the sky, initially in two separate fireworks displays and then in a joint one. This year, Kreuzlingen started with a 15-minute light spectacle. Afterwards, pyrotechnics world champion Joachim Berner fired off his fireworks show from Konstanz under the motto “Stars in concert.” Flashing lights illuminated the sky and could be seen both up in the air and reflected in Lake Constance.
Berner had previously told SWR that he wanted to “fire his way through” music history. And the pyrotechnician actually kept his promise: the colorful fireworks shone not only to songs by Lady Gaga, Sia, Prince and Bryan Adams, but also to the well-known baroque piece “Canon in D”. At the end, during the joint show section of the two cities, “Angels” by Robbie Williams was also included. Enthusiastic applause and cheers from the audience finally replaced the banging sounds of the fireworks.
Party area with various DJs
The festival mile along the Konstanz shore stretched for four kilometers: celebrations took place on Seestrasse, in the city garden, in the harbor and in Little Venice. Visitors could only enter the festival grounds with a corresponding entrance ticket.
During the day there were fire shows, water acrobatics, games for children and lots of music. In the evening, the SWR presented “Papi’s Pumpels”, the crazy pop band from Stockach (Konstanz district) on stage in the Stadtgarten. And in the Little Venice party area, various DJs played; the top act after the fireworks was “Fast Boy”.
Already on Saturday afternoon there was a good atmosphere on the shore.
Police draw positive conclusion after the event
According to a statement on Sunday night, the police were satisfied with this year’s Lake Night Festival. It was a “peaceful and successful family festival” with relatively few incidents compared to the number of visitors.
In addition, there were no major traffic disruptions either on arrival or departure, it was said. Many visitors arrived by train or bus.
Getting to the Seenachtfest by public transport
The organizers had previously recommended arriving by bus, train or boat. Konstanz train station is located directly at the festival site. In local transport, special trains of the SeehasThe entrance ticket to the Seenachtfest was valid on Saturday as a combined ticket for arrival and departure on local trains as well as city and regional buses in the entire VHB area. The Konstanz city buses could be used free of charge with the entrance ticket.
Also by ferry, the Ships of the Lake Constance shipping company and by catamaran one came to Konstanz.
On Saturday morning, SWR reporter Ramon Babazadeh described what makes the Lake Night Festival in Konstanz so special:
Tickets for the Lake Night Festival at the box office
Anyone who had not already bought their ticket for the Lake Night Festival in advance could get tickets at the box office on the festival grounds. Entry cost 25 euros. Children between 6 and 14 years of age paid five euros. Anyone who wanted to go to the festival grounds to celebrate after the fireworks could get a night ticket for ten euros.
Broadcast on Sat., 10.8.2024 8:15 p.m., Event & Gala, SWR
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