Events and festivals in Brandenburg over the weekend of 22 and 23 August 2026: Wilde Möhre near Drebkau closes its original run, Großbeeren stages its 212th victory festival, Wittenberge its 33rd harbour festival.
One last time by the Gräbendorfer See.
At Göritz near Drebkau, in the Lower Lusatia region, the thirteenth edition of the Wilde Möhre Festival runs from 21 to 24 August 2026. What's on across Brandenburg this weekend stretches from that farewell edition to the 212th victory festival in Großbeeren and the 33rd town and harbour festival in Wittenberge.
The thirteenth and last Wilde Möhre
Four days by the water: the Wilde Möhre Festival takes over the site at Göritz 5 on the Gräbendorfer See near Drebkau from 21 to 24 August. This 13th edition is also the last original one for the electronic music gathering.
After that, the original is over.
The organisers carry the festival on in a new shape after 2026. Their own line for the farewell edition, which covers Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 August, is that the crew fires from all barrels one final time. The bill features Dominik Eulberg, Pascale Voltaire, Annie O, Alyne, maniaclina and Young Lychee.
The four festival days run straight through from Friday to Monday, on open ground by the lake rather than in a hall.
Electronic music on a lakeshore, thirteen editions at the same address in Lusatia: no other date in Brandenburg this weekend carries the same sense of an ending. Anyone who wants to see the series in its current form has until 24 August.
Napoleonic re-enactment, harvest wagons and school cones
Großbeeren marks 23 August 1813. On that day Prussian troops halted Napoleon's advance on Berlin near the village, and the Historisches Siegesfest runs its 212th edition from 21 to 23 August on the old manor farm by the town hall, with historical bivouacs, battle re-enactments in period uniforms and a historical traders' market. On the Elbe, Bahnstraße and the Nedwighafen turn the 33rd Stadt- und Hafenfest Wittenberge into a double site, a stage mile downtown and a maritime setting at the marina, three days of the largest civic festival in the Prignitz.
Two villages celebrate harvest and costume. On the sports field at Güstow near Prenzlau, the Erntefest parades decorated tractors from 21 to 23 August, with pea soup from the club cauldrons, live music and dancing. At Dissen-Striesow, the 30th Heimat- und Trachtenfest opens on 23 August as the Sorbian-Wendish stork and museum village also marks 575 years of Dissen, with historical farm machinery, Sorbian costume and the traditional Hahnrupfen contest.
The school year in Brandenburg starts on August 22, 2026. In the palace park at Oranienburg, families hand over the paper cone of sweets to their first-graders that Saturday at the Zuckertütenfest. In Bad Wilsnack, the Pilgerfest recalls the medieval pilgrimage to the Holy Blood on the same day, centred on the late Gothic church of St Nikolai, the destination of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims between 1383 and 1552.