Annually at the end of July, starting from the next to last school weekend before large holidays, the city Kaufbeuren is completely in the spell dance eleven-width unit, which is considered as the oldest historical child celebration Bavarians.

In the Center of the celebration Maximilian I. is located since 1959 emperors. , the “last knight of Germany”, and on Sunday and Monday before the large procession in a play scene before the city hall the legendary donation of the celebration is represented by the emperor. Even if soon after the introduction of this play scene turned out, that this occurrence cannot documentary be proven, thus the responsible persons maintained this history nevertheless.

In the following procession about 1600 children in style-rich costumes represent the history of their city. Both procession on Sunday and Monday show in a colourful and varied picture elbow the urban history of the Karolinger up to the Biedermeier period.