Frundsberg Festival

Every three years the people of Mindelheim commemorate a great family of knights who, coming from Schwaz in Tyrol, took over the town and domination of Mindelheim in 1467 and determined the destiny of this region in the very heart of Swabia for more then 100 years.

The first festival dates back to 1853! In the meantime it atracts more than 100,000 visitors on two weekends!

Frundsberg Festival

That means above all the commemoration of the "father of the mercenaries" the general of the emperors Maximilian I and Charles V, who was born on Mindelheim Castle in 1473 and who died there on 20th August 1528: Georg von Frundsberg.