splash! Festival

Hip-Hop Between Bucket-Wheel Excavators

There is probably no other festival site in Europe that looks as spectacular as Ferropolis: Five gigantic bucket-wheel excavators from GDR times tower like metallic dinosaurs over a peninsula in the Gremminer See, embedded in a renatured opencast mining landscape. It is precisely here, in the "City of Iron" in the middle of the Anhalt-Bitterfeld district in Saxony-Anhalt, that the splash! Festival takes place every year at the beginning of July — Germany's largest and most traditional Hip-Hop event.

Since 1998, the Mecca of German-Language Rap

splash! has been around since 1998. What began as a small open-air event is now the defining festival of the German-language rap scene: If you play here, you've made it. Marteria, Cro, Apache 207, Bonez MC, Haftbefehl, RIN, Trettmann, Shirin David, Sido, Bushido — they have all been here. In addition, there are international headliners from the USA every year, from Travis Scott to Cardi B to Lil Wayne, Future, and Tyga.

A Festival Site Like No Other

The Ferropolis site is an industrial monument and festival stage in one. The main stage (Mainstage) is located directly in front of the excavators. There is also the Soundsystem Stage, a reggae floor, smaller stages for DJs and underground acts, as well as various food courts and streetwear stalls. Camping areas are spread around the lake — those who prefer more comfort can book Premium Camping with permanent sanitary facilities.

Between Halle, Leipzig, and Wittenberg

Gräfenhainichen is strategically located between Halle (Saale), Leipzig, Dessau, and Lutherstadt Wittenberg — all reachable in under an hour. Visitors to splash! travel from all over Germany; special Deutsche Bahn trains and shuttles from the nearby stations of Gräfenhainichen or Bitterfeld bring the audience to the site.

Atmosphere

splash! is loud, sweaty, crowded. It's hip, youthful, vibrant. Those who prefer conventional festival romance with campfires and acoustic sets will find nothing here. But those who love 808 bass in front of rusty steel giants, German drill on the Mainstage, and American trap stars at two in the morning on the second stage — will find their perfect weekend here. Probably Saxony-Anhalt's wildest summer festival classic.