The Hamburger Dom is a large

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held at

Heiligengeistfeld Heiligengeistfeld (German: "Holy Ghost Field") is an area of Hamburg in the St. Pauli quarter. The ''Hamburger Dom'' funfair has been held there since 1893. When the area is not used for exhibitions, circuses or the Dom it is a car park. A buildi ...

fair ground in central

Hamburg Hamburg (, ; nds, label=Hamburg German, Low Saxon, Hamborg ), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (german: Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg; nds, label=Low Saxon, Friee un Hansestadt Hamborg),. is the List of cities in Germany by popul ...

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. With three fairs (spring, summer and winter) per year it is the biggest and the longest fair throughout Germany and attracts approximately ten million visitors per year. It is also referred to as a Volksfest (

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and

travelling funfair A traveling carnival (US English), usually simply called a carnival, or travelling funfair (UK English), is an amusement show that may be made up of amusement rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, ...

).The Hamburger Dom is also one of the well known festivals in the Hamburg metropolitan area. Hamburger Dom puts on an impressive firework display at the Heiligengeistfeld, that can be seen across most of the city, every Friday that it runs at 22:30 hrs. On the Winterdom 2021 was a laser-show set up for the first time

History

A market in or in front of Hamburg's Cathedral (german: Hamburger Dom) was first recorded in 1329, at the beginning only in special seasons like

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. With the

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in the 16th century the fair was also held at other times. After the demolition of the cathedral (1804–1807), the market was held on the Gänsemarkt (lit. ''geese market'') in 1804, but kept the name “ Dom”. Since 1892, the fair has been held at Heiligengeistfeld (lit. ''field of the Holy Spirit'') and the name was used for all fairs at this location. * ''Winterdom'' or ''Dommarkt'' (winter fair or cathedral market): 30 days in late autumn * ''Sommerdom'' or ''Hummelfest'' (summer fair or ''Hummel'' market): since 1947: 31 days during summer * ''Frühlingsdom'' (spring fair): since 1948, 30 days in spring On 14 August 1981, a crane collided with the Skylab

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at the fair, killing seven and injuring fifteen.

References

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, used - pars pro toto - for most persisting or former

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es and cathedrals alike. Therefore the uniform translation of this term into English as cathedral is correct in this case, but in many other cases it is inappropriate. Hummel is the name of an Hamburg original see Johann Wilhelm Bentz

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