Spectators on the banks of the Danube... We are here to see the "Fischerstechen," another part of the Schwörmontag festivities. This one also has very old historical roots: many of the leading families of Ulm back in the middle ages were fishers and were part of fisher guilds. At some point they started doing this sort of aquatic jousting event, and the people who take part today are, I was told, still part of these families.
Here, costumed VIPs are brought over to special seating on boats... I'm sure there is a complicated explanation for all this.
The Fischerstechen goes as follows: after being announced by a commentator, two boats depart opposite sides of the river and head toward each other. Each boat has three rowers and one person, at the back, dressed up as some historical or comical character. These characters have lances or sticks, which they can only hold using one hand, and which they use to try to knock each other off the boats.
Here's my video of it:
Afterwards we went into Ulm for a concert in the Münsterplatz. The whole weekend, we had very sunny, very hot weather.
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