It´s an old tradition to celebrate that day with a wood-crop, which you´re going to burn after it gets dark. It´s a very old tradition and so I can´t say when and where it originally started. There´re a lot of myths about that day and in different cultures you find even more myths.
Our midsummer festival´s celebrated on a small hill in Petzenkirchen. I made you some pictures of the crop - before sunset and after sunset and you can also see the view from the hill to Petzenkirchen.
On our crop it´s also a tradition to "hang up" a scarecrow. Sadly I couldn´t find out why we do that and when it started. We call that scarecrow "Sonnenwenden-Hansl" (midsummer = Sonnenwende / Hans = a typical german name).
Petzenkirchen
Our church
Photos´re all made by myself.
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