Hambach Festival
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The Hambacher Festival was a German national democratic festival celebrated from 27 May to 30 May 1832 at Hambach Castle, near Neustadt an der Weinstraße, in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Procession to Hambach Castle, lithograph about 1832. The flag used by the procession would later become the German flag but with the colours in a different order.
Rebuilt Hambach Castle today
The German revolutions of 1848–1849, the opening phase of which was also called the March Revolution, were initially part of the Revolutions of 1848 that broke out in many European countries. They wer
Hambach Festival
…Hinaus!" originated at the festival, to popular enjoyment. The song quickly spread throughout Germany, eventually becoming the unofficial anthem of the 1848 German revolution. The gathering had no immediate results, but is considered a milestone in German history because it was the first time that a republican movement had…
Origin of the Flag of Germany: Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin, Berlin Palace in the background, on 19 March 1848
The painting Germania, possibly by Philipp Veit, hung inside the Frankfurt parliament, the first national parliament in German history
Vienna Uprising, October 1848
The Battle of Kirchheimbolanden, 14 June 1849