Kinderfest & Fischertag - Children’s Festival & Fishermen’s Day

The children’s festival is a 440-year-old tradition merged with the custom of the school walk in the spring. Originally, the three best schoolboys and the three best schoolgirls were chosen to be kings and queens. These days, all participating children from Memmingen’s primary and middle schools receive presents.

To mark the successful end of the school year, there are joint church services, followed by singing and dancing on the market square. In the afternoon, the children march in a colourful, fanciful procession to the playground on the stadium grounds.

The "Stängele" (little staff) carried in the procession was derived from the earlier decorated rods and the royal insignia of sceptre and crown. This staff is the symbol of Kinderfest.