Cologne Old Town Christmas Market
Flyctory.com Pros
- Cologne's largest Christmas Market
- Located in the heart of the city
- Ice track on Heumarkt
- Parking at Heumarkt Garage
Flyctory.com Cons
- Can be very crowded.
- Heumarkt has a very different atmosphere than Alter Markt
The Christmas Market in Cologne’s Old Town is the largest of the city. Under the slogan “Heinzel’s Wintermärchen” (something like Good Mans Winter Dream – Heinzelmännchen are good mystic beings in Cologne mythology), it connects two major squares in Cologne, the Alter Markt (Old Market) and Heumarkt (Haymarket). It also offers some very special attractions. Thus, the Old Town Christmas Market is very popular at tourists. Here is my review.
Cologne Old Town Christmas Market – Location & Times
Alter Markt and Heumarkt are in the heart of the city. If you for example visit Cologne Cathedral or the Christmas Market right next to it, it is just an easy walk. The Heumarkt is also directly connected to local traffic. Underground lines 1, 5, 7 and 9 stop there. There is also the 133 bus from the Main Station, which will also connect you to the Chocolate Museum and the Christmas Market at that site. There is also a small tram line which connects all these sites and the Neumarkt. I would rather recommend to take the local traffic, though.
Though the Christmas Market is marketed as one major market, the booths and attractions at Heumarkt have different opening dates than at the Alter Markt. Both parts opened on 25th November 2019 for this year, the Alter Markt part will close on 23rd December 2019, i.e. before Christmas, while the Heumarkt section will close on 5th January 2020. The market will be closed on 24th and 25th December 2019, though, which are the key holidays in Germany. Daily opening times are 11:00 to 22:00hrs. After Alter Markt is closed, the Heumarkt section will close at 21:00 hrs.

Cologne Old Town Christmas Market – Atmosphere
The atmosphere in both parts of the Christmas Market is very comparable: both are located within a city square (Heumarkt feels a bit “wider”, while Alter Markt is fully surrounded by buildings), which gives a quite cozy and intimate feeling.The Alter Markt has a central fountain, which gives a bit more space. You will find a lot of Heinzelmännchen references at the booths and signs. Please note that I took some of the Heumarkt pictures in the morning / evening hours, when the market is closed, as it can be very packed in there.







Typically, the Alter Markt is a bit more relaxed. However, on weekends, when the peak of tourist visits is hitting the city, the difference may be marginal.








In both sections, the stores are in general organized by topics. For example, you will find a Spielzeuggasse (Toy Alley) on the Alter Markt.

Cologne Old Town Christmas Market – Food & Drink
The Alter Markt section offers all typical needs of a Christmas Market Visitors. There are even some more special booths like a nice skewer grill:

In general, however you can say that the Alter Markt is more the place for crafts and shopping, while Heumarkt fills your belly and trains your liver. There are three major booths, which have small restaurant size already and a lot of additional offers.




Cologne Old Town Christmas Market – Products
As said above, there is a huge variety of vendors at the Alter Markt – quite some products are unique compared to other Cologne christmas markets. Two examples for that are a blacksmith who sells lucky horseshoes and some nice Italian bakery. The Weihnachtsgasse (Christmas Alley) also features a wide variety of festive items.













There are some stores on Heumarkt as well, but the selection is rather limited.
Cologne Old Town Christmas Market – Attractions
Both sections of the Old Town Christmas Market have some special attractions. On the Alter Markt side, there is a small ferris wheel. Furthermore, there are concerts (mainly Christmas songs) at the center of the square. Between the the two squares, there is also a wooden manger.


The most signature attractions are definitely on the Heumarkt side. It is very famous for its artifical ice skating track. You may also have a game of Bavarian curling at one section of the ice track. Due to the ice attractions, you often miss that there is also a nice carousel for kids. Apart from the Alter Markt concerts, all attractions are subject to an admission fee and potential charges to rent skates and equipment.





Cologne Old Town Christmas Market – My View
Out of the touristic Christmas Markets, the Old Town Christmas Market in Cologne is likely the nicest. Especially the Heumarkt section with the ice track has a very special atmosphere. Of course, the Cathedral in the background at Roncalli Square is somehow unbeatable, but if you rather focus on the Christmas Market itself, the products and the atmopshere, I feel that Alter Markt and Heumarkt are better.
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After the 2023 edition of the #TrueAthletes Classics took place at the end of July, TSV Bayer Leverkusen hosted their ...
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This time, selecting the leading track of my Songs of the Week was really troublesome. Three candidates have already been released ...
Right after I returned from a weekend trip to Norway, my home town Cologne hosted another really interesting country music ...
Three years ago, I introduced you to the album True Stories by Jack McBannon. Despite his artist name, the country ...
I had quite a lot of travel in recent times - so there is time for a new Food I Had ...
I already featured the band Ochmoneks twice in my Songs of the Week, on 9th June and on 7th July 2023 ...
Returning from the World Floorball Championships in Finland, heading directly to a business trip to Paris - this week was ...
Wow, what an intense week. Flyctory.com felt like my former sports project, sport-live.net, the last ten days. So many match ...
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A German team competing for the medal - the effort of the German national team at the 3x3 Floorball WFC ...
After my first posting about the debut event of the 3x3 World Floorball Championships was about the first day of ...
In my introductory posting, I already introduced you to the concept of 3x3 Floorball and the first World Floorball Championships ...
Despite the World Floorball Championships coverage, I of course want to keep my Songs of the Week updated. Due to the ...
By beating New Zealand and Australia, Singapore had already practically saved the spot as the best placed Asian / Oceanian ...
I over-estimated the travel time from Helsinki, so that I indeed made it to the first Under 19 WFC match ...
The history of Berlin nowadays is also a story of two airports which have been closed down in the meantime ...
End of April and beginning of May 2024 featured a couple of very interesting country music gigs in Germany. For ...
End of April and beginning of May 2024 came with quite some photographic dates for me. Right after the Carrie ...
There is a lot of traveling around during the next weeks. Unfortunately, I could not cover some concerts, which I ...
After I had a one show stay in Vienna, it was already some three weeks since I had seen Rock of ...
Snow in April! After I had some snowfall after the Swiss Floorball Superfinals (my coverage of the women's match / ...
Especially in summer, East Frisia and the East Frisian Islands on the German North Sea coast are very popular tourist ...
Taylor Swift, Pearl Jam and many more - this weekend is packed with great new album releases. Nonetheless, the week ...
What an honor - Darius Rucker kicked off his Starting Fires Tour World Tour in my home tome Cologne. The Live Music ...
Meeting with friends in Troisdorf between Bonn and Cologne in the evening and relaxing at the Wellnest private spa Bonn ...
It's been quite tough for me this week to keep Flyctory.com up and running. I had a stronger cold this ...
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This week, I am returning from a really cool Pittsburgh Penguins ice hockey trip along the East Coast. Maybe that's ...
The German rock band is already active since more than two decades. Not too surprisingly, the band is having quite ...
After having visited their outlets in Essen and Cologne already, my wife and I made use of Good Friday 2024 ...
12th March 2024 brought me to Bochum in the German Ruhrgebiet. The city hosted my very first Rock of Ages ...
That's all? That's roughly I thought when I finally had a rather short long list of candidates for my Songs of ...
Lautstärke is a German band, which is doing German lyrics rock songs with a touch of punk. On 29th March ...
This year, I take you on my tour-chasing of the German Rock of Ages musical. The first trip report episode ...
At the time when I started writing this posting in early March 2024, Flyctory.com already featured reviews of over 320 ...
I am closing my reviews as of 22nd March 2024 with a German artist. Being Anne (typically written in small ...
After I shared my Bochum Rock of Ages thoughts with you already, I am just about to have eight show streak ...
For the second part of my "review battle" of museums dealing with visions around the future, we leave the Museum ...
Frank Renfordt is back - and this time he is wearing his cowboy hat again! The Cumberland River Project releases ...
Typically, my trip reports are about one travel. Sometimes, there are one-day stories like the 24 hour train ride through ...
The German band Brokof is active since 2007. They established in the German music scene and already released five studio ...
A lot of traveling is ahead of me. I just returned from a trip to Bochum, watching my first two ...
I typically receive quite a lot of jazz promotion. However, I rarely find albums and EPs which I really enjoy ...
The Cumberland River Project is on the final straight towards a new release. On 22nd March 2023, Frank Renfordt and ...
Germany is sunk in strikes of different kinds, mainly in transportation business. I have been impacted this week by that ...
The name is already suggesting: this one is the debut album of a band named Pawn Painters. The German act ...
Right the day after the Sound of Nashville show in Cologne on 5th March 2024, I headed to Frankfurt. Again, ...
France, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia - I am just coming back from a massive aviation trip, which is the ...
Which genre are you thinking about when the arrangement solely consists of a piano, a cello and a vocalist? If ...
Just two weeks after I featured the Dümptener Füchse women's team at Erlensee, I had them on my schedule again ...
I struggled a bit compiling the Songs of the Week this time. The partial flight miles for my current trip ...
In June 2021, I shared the album Guns Against Liberty. The band behind that album is the Hamburg-based melodic hardcore act ...
The Selfkant is truly a remarkable municipality in the very West of the Federal Republic of Germany. The border to ...
As I knew it would be rather late after I visited the TSV Erlensee Floorball Bundesliga home matches vs. Dümptener ...
With Be Okay To Not Be Okay, I present you another debut album from Germany. While you might not know the ...
February 2024 is quite an intense month for me. Even though the trips I have planned and done are comparably ...
The second match in the Großsporthalle Erlensee on 17th February 2024 was a match in the South-West division of the 2nd ...
As part of my initiative to have more sports coverage in 2024, I traveled to Erlensee on 17th February 2024 ...
Coming back from the United Arab Emirates and about to head to Malaysia soon - thus, some really interesting experiences ...
I always enjoy sharing some new German artists with you. This time, I listened to a debut album by the ...
When I introduced you to the Audi & Siku Museum Höing about three years ago, you already saw that the ...
My trip to the handball matches at the EHF Euro 2024 preliminary round matches in Berlin did not feel being ...
Carnvial in Cologne - and I am in he United Arab Emirates this weekend. It is rather party season, no ...
I am always a bit of extra-flattered when my most frequently used promotion platform shows an album by a German ...
I am always flattered when there are new, interesting German acts who are releasing country music. This week on Flyctory.com ...
Having dinner with some frequent traveler friends in Frankfurt lead to a one night stay in the German city, famous ...
With the ISTAF Indoor 2023, I kicked off my campaign to intensify my athletics coverage in 2023. The more, I ...
January 2024 has already passed and we are running into the first February 2024 edition of my weekly release radar ...
Especially after I reviewed the amazing album Das ist keine Übung in October 2023, I was really looking forward to see Alex ...
Slope are doing a quite rare mix of metal, hip hop and electronic sounds. The band developed their style during ...
Quite early before the release of Reliquien, I receved the first press information about the debut album by German artist ...
There are a lot of zoos and animal parks in the Rheinland and Ruhrgebiet region of Germany. The TerraZoo in ...
This review is about some singer-songwriter pop from Germany - more precisely: quite from the Rheinland area I grew up ...
In the relations of my home town Cologne, we are celebrating a big Songs of the Week anniversary with this edition. My ...
I still feel that in many athletics meetings, the track events are somehow still more in focus than the field ...
After a few mentions in my Songs of the Week, I was really looking forward to listen to the new album ...
After I had already flown the Airbus A320 simulator by Aerotask in Essen, I was really looking forward to my ...
Wernigerode being located right North of the Harz mountains might not be the most obvious location for an aviation museum ...
On 6th January 2024, I have been in Switzerland to cover two floorball matches, Zulgtal Eagles vs. Visper Lions and ...
Getting into the FInal4, the semifinal and final event of the German Floorball Cup, is likely one of the most ...
After I gave you my report of the field and side events of the 2004 Sparkassen Indoor Meeting in Dortmund, ...
In general, I plan to increase the frequency of my athletics coverage during 2024. The first event of that sports ...
This week, I published how I feel to concentrate on one Country Music Playlist - at least until I found ...
This week, I am dealing with quite a lot of music postings during the week. There are two reasons for ...
There is hardly any more controversial topic between my wife and I than music by Andreas Dorau: while I feel ...
Seeing one of the very first appearances of the Faroe Islands at a EHF Euro in handball just felt too ...
This time, my Songs Of The Week consist of 14 new releases as of this week. The Christmas break is definitely ...
Andreas Dorau is one of the artists I follow for the longest time in my life. In 1997, just when ...
Happy New Onbaord-Food Year! At least, there is one flight experience from 2024 in this posting already, a Lufthansa Business ...
While I still had a rather short list of album releases, there was already quite a lot of stuff for ...
The Christmas weeks are typically the ones with the lowest number of releases. Unfortunately, quite the majority of the songs ...
Is it really New Year's Eve already again? The last day of the year? I am posting this one in ...
Yeah, I am still more of an album person. I feel that a long-play is still able to tell stories ...
It's time to look back to . After I shared my new format My Year in Travel with you the first time, ...
Irish folk rock made in Franconia, Germany? Fiddler's Green proof that this can be quite a success. With The Green ...
It's Christmas Eve, the main day of the Christmas celebrations in Germany. However, all the holiday songs seem having been ...
I already featured the Nuremberg-based band Strife 85 twice in my Songs of the Week this year. Right before the holiday, ...
Typically, there are two sorts of album reviews at Flyctory.com: I received the vast majority of reviews as a promo ...
I already introduced you to the Museumkaart in the Netherlands, which may be a very profitable (but a bit of ...
Staying at the ibis Budget Aachen Raeren Grenze has been a hotel night I have been looking forward to do ...
The Christmas countdown is steadily running to zero - which more and more means that new releases get sparse. I ...
A vacation album? The title Urlaub in der Bredouille sounds like a road trip album to some French region... But ...
A big name in the schlager business: 41 years after Andreas Martin releases his very first studio album, he is ...
Aufbruch is a very interesting EP release from Germany as of 15th December 2023. The band recording it, Ticket To Happiness ...
Not only during the carnival season, music is a core part of the identify of my home town Cologne. Thus, ...
As you know, I am very interested in iconic public transport systems. Thus, I had to visit the Schwebebahn, the suspension ...
His show in Aschaffenburg 2019, the main stage appearance at the C2C Berlin 2020 and now Cologne 2023: Eric Paslay ...
John Garner - this musical act name sounds like a solo artist, but is in fact a quintet. The German ...
Unfortunately, I could not complete the Country Christmas Playlist this year due to technical issues. However, since the days become ...
Chinese lantern shows and other illuminations have become more and more popular in Europe during the recent winter seasons. In ...
I am a bit of angry as the tool I loved to use to scan for new country releases does ...
December, when the frequency of album releases significantly decreases, is also a time for me to have some more outside-of-the-box ...
Even though the soil in Monheim was quite muddy, the Ben Zucker concert I had there in July was definitely ...
Especially during the last months, I felt again how much interesting music is coming from Hamburg. The city in the ...
Willow Parlo's Facebook profile states With the window open, Willow Parlo turns the backdrop of the depressing and monotonous city ...
Afrer his very interesting album release Going Solo, I was really curious about how Gergor McEwan would be alike live on ...
Typically when I fly from the B Gates at Frankfurt Airport (FRA), I love opting for the Air Canada Maple ...
Before I have just been close to the NH Collection Hamburg City, I knew that this hotel will give me ...
After my previous Songs of the Week editions were rather pop-alike, I was rather surprised that my release radar this time is ...
The clumsy yet unswerving attempts of being an artist - that's how Jules Atlas describes himself on his Facebook profile ...
The Nacht der Gitarren concert series with Jim Kimo West took me to quite some nice places in late 2023. I had ...
London, Faroe Islands, another trip tp England, Sweden, USA - the last weeks of 2023 involve quite a bit of ...
After his 2019 album Traveling Son and the 2022 Take it Slow, Memories is already the third Michael Lane album I cover ...
I am typically glad to run into new bands and interesting acts. A few weeks before the release, I received ...
For the music review weekend of 24th November 2023, I picked a bunch of rather new German acts in my ...
Wacken could be just a normal village on the countryside of the German state of Schleswig-Hostein. However, when you mention the ...
There are so many art museums and technical museums out there. However, do we really care sufficiently about the items ...
After their debut album Hollow Throne has already been successful, the German melodic post hardcore band Maelfoy is releasing their sophomore album ...
In order to cover the Home Free concert in Hamburg in September 2023, I had a night at the ibis ...
Oh, Christmas is approaching quickly now. A huge number of songs I scanned for my Songs of the Week this time ...
When I started listening to the album UWE of the German band Frollein Motte, I liked their cheeky and straight sound. You ...
How could I ignore am album starting with a (for me) very special song released on a (for me) very ...
After my eleventh Food I Had Onboard posting majorly concentrated on two Lufthansa First Class legs between Frankfurt (FRA) and ...
TraMy trip in late October / early November 2023 involved a lot of traveling. Once I made it back to ...
I had a short trip to Hamburg this weekend, watching my last Nacht der Gitarren show (see my Reutlingen show report) ...
Sonia Liebing established in the wider range of well-known German schlager artists the last years. On her homepage, she is ...
Finn & Jonas are twins. They are doing German indie-pop songs. After they grew regionally and have a national fan ...
Just as it felt convenient to stay somewhere closer to the office where I work, I had a night at ...
I had a quite intensive week, exploring several interesting rail trips as well as being back in Pittsburgh and in ...
Source is the fourth album by the German band Alphawezen. However, the most recent album release has happened fourteen years before ...
I always love being able to look into new names, new sounds, new bands. This one is about the rock ...
Roberta John Joni Mitchell is a Canadian-US-American singer-songwriter, who majorly did folk and pop music in her career. She has won ...
A very interesting part of visiting Heidelberg Castle is the Deutsches Apothekenmuseum, the German Pharmacy Museum. It is giving an illustrative ...
Luke is a German artist and band, who are doing blues rock and Americana rock music. After two EP releases, ...
The two world wars have caused significant damage to most German cities - especially those with a somehow-strategical meaning. Thus, ...
Halloween is not that much of a big deal in Germany - but some parts of my home country have ...
40 years of Doro Pesch on stage - I really feel a bit of bad that I am not in ...
Having a cheap hotel close to the main station after the Kelvin Jones concert in October 2023. My aim, when ...
Just two months until Christmas. You feel that in my this week's edition of the Songs of the Week definitely. First ...
Myle is a rather new artist from Southern Germany. On 20th October 2023, the pop artist is releasing his debut ...
Just about a month after I saw Randall King at the Cologne Club Volta, I was back there again on ...
In order to to cover the local Nacht der Gitarren show, I headed to Reutlingen in mid-October 2023. As the weeks before ...
Before we checked out the new Wellnest private spa in Cologne, my wife and I felt it is a good ...
At the end of September, some miraculous things were happening on the Instagram accounts of the Country To Country Festivals ...
I felt it is a good time to publish my next episode of Food I Had Onboard in this week in ...
I spent almost the entire week at work in Dublin at one of our offices. Quite an intense time, which ...
Finally, he is in Germany! I was so excited to see Jim Kimo West at the Nacht der Gitarren ("Night of the ...
Despite the album Collections being his debut one, the Southwest German Sebastian Schaffer is not a "newbie" at all. He ...
FRAUPAUL is a rather new band from Hamburg. Recently, I ran into some of their songs of the second EP ...
After my wife and I overall had a nice stay at the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen, we were curious ...
After I had the opportunity to see Kelvin Jones at the Heart To Heart show in Dusseldorf and the preparing ...
Maybe, due to the national holiday in Germany, the list of new songs was rather short on the platform I ...
The Geschwister Hofmann (namely: "Hofman Siblings") have been a German schlager duo of two sisters. From their first stage appearances ...
It's already five years ago since Antje Schomaker released her debut album Von Helden und Halunken. The feature singles to her ...
In 2021, I introduced you to Alex Diehl the first time. That year, he released the amazing EP Die Songs, die ...
Golf? In Germany, the sport is rather regarded to be elite entertainment, a free time activity for the rich. Our ...
Unfortunately, I had to kick out quite a lot of songs from my list, which I really liked. They just ...
Sacropolis is a German-French indie-pop project. However, the members are not coming from the Saarland or any similar close-to-the border ...
Big release day for Collapse Under The Empire: with Recurring, they don't just publish their tenth studio album overall, the German ...
I recently ran into the music of German artist They Called Me Phoebe for the first time. The more I ...
Schrobenhausen North of Munich is typically known for as one of the German centers of asparagus farming. The city is ...
There is somehow always some sort of "topic" behind each and every Songs of the Week episode. If I would pick one ...
Busy times: just three days after I saw Home Free in Hamburg and eight days after the Randall King show ...
The story of the hard rock project Rising Wings is indeed a rather unique one: the band was already active ...
Getting to the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf required a rental car from Stuttgart Main Station to the town ...
Home Free - the a capella country band has built a fan base all over the world nowadays. I was ...
When Swiss International Air Line recently released the seat map of their new Airbus A350 fleet, a real advantage of ...
The Songs Of The Week is one of my favorite categories of posts on my blog. Even I don't know how the ...
It is just mid-year 2023 and I already start working on my 2024 Rock of Ages International Tour list. I am sure ...
I love small regional air service like the Essential Air Service in the USA or flights to small and rather ...
Wow - I had so many albums this week. Even if I skipped all travel posts and do the regular ...
The Blackwhitecolorful is a band from my home town Cologne. After a 2020 album release, Brace for Impact is their sophomore ...
If you regularly follow my Songs of the Week, you already know the upcoming German artist Bellucci Boi. I introduced you ...
Are we really in the double digits now? I am really happy about my "new" category Food I had Onboard. Also, ...
The public transport situation of Dusseldorf Airport (DUS) is a bit more complex than it might feel at first sight ...
September 2023 will be a quite busy monh. If I finally receive all press passes I envisage to get, there ...
In March 2020, just at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Melanie Wiegmann went to the Maltese island of Gozo ...
While covering the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel, I was looking for an accommodation near the hosting venue Auestadion. I ...
One evening with six different artists? The opening night of the Heart To Heart concert series definitely came with high ...
When I prepared for the review of this album, I read in one magazine article that Gregor McEwen is a ...
I have quite intense weeks at work, not too many thrills on the Flyctory.com side. The next weeks will have ...
The title of the album Guten Morgen, schönes Leben translates to "Good morning, beautiful life". The artist who wrote it is German ...
Looking for a hotel to cover the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf did not give me too many options ...
If you think about famous German harbor cities, you might initially think of places like Hamburg or Kiel. However, Duisburg ...
This weekend, I have been traveling through England, doing some musical-chasing. As mixed as the stuff I have been doing ...
Actually, we never stopped playing are the first words to the press notes to Back on Track, the comeback album of ...
Madsen is indeed a German family rock band. Three of the six band members are brothers, the band name is ...
Very often, a song I feature as a Song Of My Life is also a track which made me listen ...
The Bergischer HC is a handball club in the German Bundesliga. Visiting one of their home matches requires a bit ...
I am still relaxing from all the trips I had during the last weeks. Nonetheless, things are just busy and ...
Rap and pop music - Mo-Torres is one of the more modern style musicians of the Cologne music scene. On ...
I am surprised that it has never been there before, stated Jackson Dean, one of the four artists, who will ...
Home is where the heart is - I had the idea to this posting about my favorite cities of the ...
The website of the FC St. Pauli Museum states that a club like no other deserves a museum as no other. Indeed, ...
As part of my overnights bridging the night between two mandatory days at the office in Cologne, my last stay ...
After some rather intense week of traveling, I feel rather happy to spend the next two weekends in and around ...
Turn of Tides or Where the Waves Come From - that's quite an album title, ain't it? The artist behind ...
It is some three years ago since I reviewed the album 555 by the German synth-pop project X-Perience. I was ...
Why not doing some jazz-pop in summer? Quite early before the release, I had the opportunity to listen to Sequel by ...
The first day of our Iceland Ring Road trip brought my wife and I to the Air France / KLM ...
Just a week after I stayed at the Mercure Cologne City Friesenstrasse, I tried out another hotel of the Accor ...
My first posting from the Manforter Stadion at the #TrueAthletes Classics 2023 in Leverkusen has been about the field events. Now, ...
I never know what is really happening when I compose a new episode of my Songs of the Week. Until Friday, ...
World class athletics in walking distance to my home? The #TrueAthletes Classics in Leverkusen has been on my bucket list ...
Sasha did so many genres already. He is majorly known as a pop artist, but also did rockabilly records with ...
The Monheimer Sommer is a small series of open air concerts, driven by the city in the Rheinland region. Apart from ...
Some interesting indie-pop from Germany: I already featured Santans in my Song of the Week postings. However, on 28th July 2028, ...
When I reviewed the album now by the German rock band Fury in the Slaughterhouse in April 2021, it has been their ...
Being on a five-day seminar in Lünen North of Dortmund lead to a comparably long stay at the Hampton by ...
What are you doing as a hobby travel blogger when your company (the professional work...) is requesting you to meet ...
While I had quite an intense week in regards of scanning country music new releases, the German and international music ...
Electronic music is typically neither the genre I listen to personally nor the type of music which frequently represented in ...
Some classic hard rock by a new German band project? I got curious when I ran into Rise Up, the debut ...
Due to its harbor, Hamburg is a very important place for trading goods of all kinds. Not too surprisingly, there ...
NH Hotels are rolling out a new brand of hotels in Europe: nhow (pronounced as "now") is a group of ...
Newcomers and established artists, rock and schlager, party songs and deep messages - I feel that this edition of my ...
Tom Astor is likely the most important living artist of the German country music scene. In 2023, he did not ...
With this fourth posting, I am closing my coverage of the German Athletics Nationals 2023. The Auestadion in Kassel hosted ...
I start my coverage of the second day of the German Athletics Nationals 2023 in Kassel with the field events ...
I am a huge fan of the field events in athletics - and thus, I am really glad to also ...
The German Athletics Nationals (or German Athletics Championships... or Deutsche Leichtathletik-Meisterschaften) 2023 in Kassel were truly one of the events I ...
Some surprise in this week's posting: I selected a very special instrumental track to lead my Songs of the Week ...
After I gave you three postings about the music at the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf already, it is ...
Closing day in Pfulllendorf - after Saturday came with a long line-up and a lot of acts, the musical side ...
Motorbikes and good music - I am having a really good time in Pfullendorf at the Lake Constance region in ...
After the great musical warm-up on the first day of the Seepark Biker Days 2023 in Pfullendorf, Saturday was something ...
My first full festival coverage with Flyctory.com - I was really nervous while sitting on the train to Stuttgart and ...
The closer you get to summer and vacation time, the easier it is for comparably minor acts to have a ...
I am not a Harley rider and I will travel to Pfullendorf by rental car. But I am really looking ...
I have to give in, that is not a normal posting. I felt that with any major anniversary for Flyctory.com, ...
One more Food I had onboard until I have a full set of ten postings. Hope you also enjoy reading ...
Traveling out of nowehere: I compiled this set of songs in Swansea in Whales, watching the very last Rock of ...
Time to add some more death metal to the Media Reviews of Flyctory.com: after the May 2021 release A Hill To Die Upon, ...
I always enjoy introducing you to emerging artists. One of the reviews I feature about a rather less known artist ...
Right before my wife and I visited the Wellnest Private Spa in Essen during the Christmas holidays of 2022, we ...
The name of the German city of Wuppertal in the Bergische Land region near Cologne is indeed a perfect fit ...
I typically rather focus presenting new and emerging act in my Song of the Week, but this time, the list of ...
My visit at the Sea Life in Munich has still been under Covid-19 regulations. However, I feel that most of ...
I received so many great albums this week - no chance to process a fair fraction of them. However, the ...
After there was some confusion about my coverage of the German debut of the Rock of Ages musical in Munich, I was ...
Sad and touching moments just need to have a good hotel stay for your soul. For the very last leg ...
Back to the Kantine in Cologne: just less than a month after I saw Kip Moore in their major and ...
In November 2022, right after my birthday, a German world-class band was in focus of my Flyctory.com coverage. One day ...
The former concentration camp site at Bergen-Belsen might not be as prominent as Dachau, but it is nonetheless one of ...
Due to my recent illness, I have to reduce my travel activity in June significantly. Nonetheless, there will be ten Rock ...
It's already some four years ago since Silbermond released their last album Schritte. Even though the chart placements were fine, it ...
A 75k ATP Challenger right next to the city where I grew up? Troisdorf near Bonn and their tennis club ...
I have struggled quite much with health issues this week - which also prevented me to travel to some British Rock ...
Some harder rock from Southern Germany: Grenzenlos have been growing their fan base during the last years significantly. The have ...
On 23rd May 2023, the Sound of Nashville concert series had a very special even in Cologne's Helios37. Despite being ...
I love to have a look to German artists, which might not be in key focus of the media. Sören ...
A public holiday in (parts of) Germany gave me the opportunity to collect some status Tier Points for my British ...
When I first googled of "Palila", I ran into a cute yellow-white bird. Palila from Hamburg, however, are less cute ...
I received the album Maniac by the Munich post-hardcore band Marathonmann way before its release on 19th May 2023. Short message: I ...
Catharsis by pain - that's a quote I read frequently about the Hamburg doom metal bnd Moor. For their debut ...
Oops, I did it again. Just within about a month, I feel that I had a nice volume of flights, ...
Sound of Nashville time again. Right after I returned from a brief trip through the Nordics, Semmel Concerts and their ...
After the volume of songs in the last two weeks has been rather thin, this week's Songs of the Week comes with ...
At the German version of The Voice Kids, a ten year old girl quickly persuaded the coaches in the blind auditions ...
Germany meets Belgium and Belgium meets the Netherlands. Needless to say that also Germany and the Netherlands touch each other ...
I did a bit of an ESC week this week, featuring Guildo Horn's Guildo hat Euch lieb! in my Songs of the Week and ...
Even though Accor is likely the second-most frequented hotel group in my bookings, a night in Bremen in April 2023 ...
The album Therapy In Melody was definitely one I was looking forward to. Two of the featured singles by the band Indecent ...
There are these days in life which you remember. The days you exactly remember what you did on that day ...
I am quite surprised about a rather short list of new songs today. Might be because of Labour Day on ...
There is quite some blues focus on the releases I opted to share with you released as of 5th May ...
The artist name Sebel is a short form for the civil name of the artist, Sebastian Niehoff. He is a ...
From the Highwayman to the Bluesman: about a year ago, I reviewed the album Highwayman by Tino Z.On 5th May 2023, the German is back ...
As I told you in previous postings, I initially gather candidates for my Songs of the Week, before I narrow the ...
Let's take you on a trip to Iceland. This is the first proper entry to my Trip Report, which takes on ...
I am always glad to present you German artists, who have a touch of international-style Americana and country music influences ...
Just at the end of the week in which I covered the concert of the Wellerman band The Longest Johns, I ran ...
This April 2023 episode of my Spotlight interviews is one I have been a bit of nervous about, indeed. After ...
Visiting Dortmund, my wife and I also headed to the Naturmuseum (Nature Museum) in the city of the German Ruhrgebiet. After the ...
Using public transport all over Germany for 49 Euro? Sounds like the perfect deal, especially if you are a visitor ...
As I am having some quite intense travels ahead of me, I currently try to prepare as much contents for ...
Reading sessions, artsexhibitions... and concerts - if you look at the tour dates of Kati von Schwerin, you already see ...
In 2018, four Bristol guys recorded an old New Zealand shanty, which was about 150 years old at that time ...
Even though Heidelberg is a tourist magnet for many reasons, the Heidelberger Bergbahnen (Heidelberg Funiculars) are part of it. They offer you ...
After some rather intense traveling, I am glad that there is just a short trip this week. I concentrated on ...
While I struggled with their self-titled debut album Musa Dagh, some other critics had a completely different view about the first ...
In January 2023, I took a rail trip hitting all 16 German states in one day. Apart from that geographic ...
For a night after a photo trip to the Harz mountains in January 2023, I had a one night stay ...
Despite the album name Hamburg, the German indie-pop band North West is in fact from the very North West of Germany, ...
Not too many releases due to the Easter week. The week was dominated by my Rock of Ages coverage. First of all, ...
I had quite a lot of rock music recently on Flyctory.com. Especially German artists made it quite frequently into my ...
I have to give in: the red carpet is not my favorite location. Nonetheless, I felt very thankful that after ...
I had seen the musical Rock of Ages 73 times before this show - but show #74 made me kind of extra-nervous ...
Duisburg in the Ruhrgebiet might not be on the top of your list when you plan a trip though Germany ...
Pop, rock, schlager and much more - I feel that this week's Songs of the Week is a really nice mix of ...
Vanessa Mai is back with a new album. However, the German artist with Croatian roots is going back to her ...
Das ist die Wahrheit - "That's the Truth" is the title of the 2023 album of the rock band VIVA ...
Attending a frequent traveler meeting nearby, I had the opportunity to visit the Hampton by Hilton Frankfurt Airport towards the ...
The last legs of the 2023 Weird Al Yankovic European Tour, Rock of Ages shows, the Pittsburgh Penguins and many ...
I have to give in: the song leading this week's Songs of the Week might also be a candidate for the ...
Floorball playoff time in Bonn: on 26th March 2023, the SSF Dragons Bonn hosted the first best of three match ...
Four decades of guitar riffs - the hard rockers / metalheads Black Hawk already have quite a long history. The ...
After a lot of tour-chasing Weird Al Yankovic and watching the Pittsburgh Penguins, the first weekend home after quite a ...
Technically, I had already closed the list of potential reviews as of 24th March 2023. But then came Sophia and ...
Leony is one of the most interesting emerging artists in the German pop music market. She is currently part of ...
In order to explore Hamburg and upgrade my contents about the Northern German city, I had a two night stay ...
I am always impressed where the Songs of the Week each weekend finally end of. This time, for example, i have been ...
Sometimes, it is easy to select the leading track of my Songs of the Week: I had two hot candidates, but ...
On 10th February 2023, I ran into the single release All my Songs by the German duo Mael & Jonas (in fact, ...
Back to my former home, the Harz mountains: watching two matches of the Red Devils Wernigerode, visiting my student residence ...
Even though Brühl right South of Cologne is just home of 45,000 inhabitant, there are mutiple major attractions in the ...
Ten shows within three weeks - I was just so flattered to welcome Weird Al Yankovic and his lovely band ...
After my most recent edition of my Songs of the Week majorly featured German artists and a lot of pop, my song ...
Wolfgang Petry is back: just about one and a half years after Auf das Leben and half a year after Crosswalk to ...
After I have been quite impressed by her recent development, I was quite curious about 24-1, the new album by German ...
Heading to Hamburg for a day just in the middle of Weird Al Yankovic tour-chasing for country music? February and ...
They started as a school band in my home town and gained global reputation: AnnenMayKantereit released their fourth album Es ist ...
He is having the unofficial nickname The singing Gentleman's Cake and had a huge song about a cat's toilet - Helge Schneider ...
I love gathering songs for Songs of the Week, as the result is so unpredictable, even for me, until short before ...
Endlevel are a German band, who mix thrash and death metal elements. On 24th February 2023, they released a new ...
I was quite surprised when I received the press kit for Antonia Kubas' debut EP: Liebe und Musik ("Love and music") ...
Damn, it is already four years... And it is more than 2,750 postings since then. On 25th February 2018, I ...
The music of OH FYO! is described as a mixture of pop and hip hop elements. I received their album Level ...
Medieval hard rock, Gothic, dance music? Tanzwut is definitely one of these bands in the German music scene, which are ...
Today is a very special day to me: Weird Al Yankovic is playing is first-ever concert in Germany tonight, at ...
Wow, it's already half a dozen of episodes. This time, I start my Food I Had Onboard posting with two ...
Damn - just when I had a massive travel volume, the number of new releases of all genres went up ...
February and early March 2023 held a couple of concerts and shows for me. Thus, right after returning from the ...
I can't really you explain you my sympathy... But I ran into Kammer III, the latest album by Malte Vief ...
Ireland, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, USA, Canada - and of course Germany lay ahead of me for the ...
An album with a bunny - how could I not give a review of Warlord, the album by the stoner rock band ...
For some reviews, I just need much longer than expected to find a good slot in my publication planning. One ...
I am kicking off the most stressful part of the year, quite likely. This week, I headed off to Peterborough ...
The Donots have steadily grown and became an established part of the German rock music scene. They also had quite ...
Time to present you some music from Germany this weekend: The Rehats are doing folk-pop and already exist since over ...
After my - a bit of weird - trip of passing all 16 German states and eleven largest cities of ...
The story of the album The Candle and the Flame is really dramatic and touching. Australian artist Robert Forster recorded the nine ...
Bitburg is a comparably small town in the German Eifel region in West Germany, not too far away from the ...