Simbacher Pfingstdult

The Simbacher Pfingstdult turns the Dultplatz around Simbach am Inn's old LOKschuppen railway shed into a full week of Pentecost fairground life, run by the Zeiler family showman business. The 2026 edition runs Thursday 21 through Wednesday 27 May — a Tag der Vereine opener, a Nacht in Tracht costume evening, a Weißwurst breakfast paired with a Schafkopf card tournament, the traditional BC Simbach boxing exhibition on Pentecost Sunday, a discounted family day on Pentecost Monday, and senior and children's afternoons closing out the week. 2026 also marks the first full season in the newly rebuilt ZeilerZelt tent, marketed on improved acoustics and capacity.

"Dult" implies more than rides and a beer tent: a genuine Warenmarkt goods-market element runs alongside the fairground, the same tradition that gives Regensburg's and Munich's own Dulten their name. By local tradition, Simbach's own fair traces to an eighteenth-century predecessor at the town's old Kirchenplatz, though the format has changed twice since — a Rennbahn racetrack ground, then the current LOKschuppen-area Dultplatz from 2008 — so that older date describes a different fair, not this one's own founding. Sitting directly across the Inn from Braunau am Inn, Austria, the festival draws a genuine cross-border crowd, and its Pentecost Sunday boxing bout (BC Simbach vs. an invited club) is an unusually distinctive fixture for a Volksfest of this size. See Simbacher Pfingstdult page or explore Lower Bavaria.