Procession to Hambach Castle

The Hambacher Fest was a national democratic festival, similar to the Wartburg festival of 1817, celebrated at Hambach Castle near Neustadt an der Weinstraße (Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany), on May 27-May 30, 1832 with about 30 000 participants. Movement of the students on the Wartburg in 1817 The first Wartburg festival (German: Wartburgfest) on October 18, 1817 was an important event in German history that took place at the Wartburg castle at Eisenach. ... Neustadt an der Weinstraße, otherwise known as Neustadt a. ... The Rhenish Palatinate (Rheinpfalz, sometimes Lower Palatinate or Niederpfalz) occupies rather more than a quarter of the German Bundesland (federal state) of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz) and contains the towns of Ludwigshafen, Kaiserslautern, Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Pirmasens, Landau and Speyer. ... May 27 is the 147th day (148th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 218 days remaining. ... May 30 is the 150th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (151st in leap years). ... 1832 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

People came from all ranks of society, workmen, students and members of parliament, as well as from different nations as France and Poland. Amongst the Polish there were many who fled after the November Uprising (1830 - 1831) from Poland to Germany and further on to France. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

At that time under the control of Bavaria, the local population suffered from high taxes and censorship. The main demands of the meeting that had been disguised as a non-political county fair were Liberty, Civil rights and National Unity (against the sectionalism that had prevailed in Germany since the Thirty Years War). The Free State of Bavaria  (German: Freistaat Bayern), with an area of 70,553 km² (27,241 square miles) and 12. ... Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Civil rights or positive rights are those legal rights retained by citizens and protected by the government. ... National Unity Governments are coalition governments made up of all or most parties in a parliament. ... The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally in the central European territory of the Holy Roman Empire, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ...

No consensus was reached in regard to actions, and a few uncoordinated violent acts were carried out by students later on. This was criticied as missing a chance, e.g. by poet Heinrich Heine. The meeting had no immediate results, but the meeting is a milestone in German history, and saw the establishment of the colors Black-Red-Gold as a symbol of a German democratic movement (Flag of Germany). It was truly a brilliant time for Nationalists. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born as Harry [Hebrew: Chaim] Heine December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German poets. ... The current flag of Germany. ...