“Jeck im Sunnesching” is to be celebrated in Bonn’s Rheinaue on Saturday – with many bands and tens of thousands of spectators. A local resident wanted to prevent this at the last second.
Update from August 25, 2022, 2:51 p.m .: The Cologne administrative court has decided: The “Jeck im Sunnesching Bonn” festival can take place in the Rheinaue. It rejected the urgent application from a concerned resident.
Bonn – It is a case whose certain drama is probably difficult for people outside of the Rhineland to understand: A few days before the jecken festival “Jeck im Sunnesching Bonn”, the popular open-air event in the federal city with tens of thousands of revelers is about to end .
A resident of the Rheinaue, where the party is supposed to go up on Saturday, has filed an urgent application: He is suing the city of Bonn, which approved “Jeck im Sunnesching 2022”. His problem: the music, the people – the noise. It’s all too much for him.
The city administration around Bonn’s Mayor Katja Dörner sees herself as right. The authority argues with the administrative court that each municipality is allowed to carry out up to 18 so-called “rare events” per year according to the leisure noise decree of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
This is “Jeck im Sunnesching”
- “Jeck im Sunnesching” is an open-air festival with well-known Cologne bands such as Kasalla, Brings and Cat Ballou
- From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., many visitors celebrate the Rhenish way of life in costume – and the Kölsch
- The well-known Cologne brewery Gaffel is behind “Jeck im Sunnesching”.
- Due to Corona, the event in 2020 and 2021 was completely canceled
- Because of the proximity to the Cologne carnival, “Jeck im Sunnesching” is not without controversy: Traditionalists see the tradition threatened by an event outside of the carnival session
The administrative court must now decide – and that is located in the carnival stronghold of Cologne, of all places. Incidentally, there will also be a “Jeck im Sunnesching” party there (Jugendpark, Cologne-Mülheim), a week later on September 3, 2022. (kem)
