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PigFest in Wittlich, Germany 🇩🇪. 08.20.2022

Each year in August, the town of Wittlich celebrates their annual Pig Fest known as Saubrennerkirmes. Pig Fest is one of the largest street festivals in Rhineland-Palatinate. As the name implies, the festival is celebrated with the roasting of more than 100 pigs on spits over a 4-day period. The story behind the Pig Fest or as legend has it, during ancient times the city was threatened by a horde of Huns. They felt secure behind their Roman walls; however, the night prior to the Huns arriving, the evening guard charged with locking the gate could not find the peg to secure the door. So a soldier placed a turnip in its place. (There seems to be some dispute as to whether it was a turnip or carrot but the official city statement does say turnip.) Well, during the night a pig came along and ate the turnip leaving the gate unlocked and allowing the Huns to enter and sack the city. Once the Huns left, the people of Wittlich slaughtered all of the pigs as punishment. Today the city cooks up over a 100 large pigs for the annual Pig Festival.