Performance in the Rosental

Premiere: The town magicians celebrate in the Drau town

The Stadtrichter zu Clagenfurth are heading to Villach.(Bild: Uta Rojsek-Wiedergut)

Old town magicians at the church festival: the colorful gentlemen from Klagenfurt travel to the church festival in Villach in a vintage convertible bus. The Suetschach Harmonists make their very first appearance in the Rosental!

"We're taking part in the Villach Kirchtag for the first time as a kind of delegate of the city of Klagenfurt," reveals Burgrave Willi Noll. After an official farewell from Klagenfurt's politicians and sponsors at Neuer Platz (10.15 am), the tour will set off on August 3 in the Nostalgiebahnen Kärnten convertible bus towards Draustadt - with stops in Krumpendorf (11.15 am), Pörtschach (12 noon) and at Schlosshotel Velden (12.30 pm).

"In Villach, we'll take part in the big parade from 3 pm, sing our club anthem and invite everyone to the Altstadtzauber, which will be magical in Klagenfurt a week later, from August 8 to 10," promises Noll.

The Bauerngman and the Stadtrichter are similar: both are men's clubs, both are associated with carnival - the Villach carnival has its origins in the Bauerngman, the Stadtrichter still invite people to the pointed Stadtgerücht every year - and both clubs are involved in charitable work - the Stadtrichter have collected and donated more than 1.2 million euros in 50 years. "We are brothers in spirit. And we want to intensify the friendship between the towns," says Noll happily.

And on the return journey, the Suetschacher Harmonists, the favorites of the Stadtgerücht audience, will sing for the first time in Feistritz im Rosental (from 7 pm at Centris in St. Johann 114).