The sparks is a celebration, with solemn ceremony a straw witch on an enormous heap of failure is burned and on Sunday after ashtray Wednesday is celebrated. Sense and purpose is driving out the winter. After Christmas the young people in the villages begin, to collect the old Christmas trees and other inflammable things. On weekend after carnival all that becomes, in the meantime well dried wood,- on a large meadow before the village to a high heap stacked up. In the Center of the heap a long bar stands, at that as far as possible above a straw doll, as a witch is disguised, fastened. That is the “Spark witch –(Funkenhex)”. On Sunday, as soon as it becomes dark, meets the whole village at a central place and in a long Procession, generally by music one accompanies, pull all to the spark.

If all arrived, this is solemnly ignited. It is an enormous pageant, with that naturally conditions stand, at the beer, Liquor, Glow wine, Small sausage, Krapfen (Fried dough foods) and Funkenküchle to be sold and of a increased place, one can see the spark fires blazing everywhere.