{"id":602,"date":"2021-01-15T07:25:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T06:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/?page_id=602"},"modified":"2026-05-07T14:28:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:28:04","slug":"jahn-turnfest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/en\/jahn-turnfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahn gymnastics festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n\t\t\t\t<li>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/image-gymnastics.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<h1>Jahn Gymnastics FestivalJahn Gymnastics Festival<\/h1>\n\n\n\t\t<\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<a href=\"#mehr\">Discover<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/download.svg\" \/><\/a>\n\t<p>Welcome to Jahn gymnastics!<\/p>\n\t<p>The Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Gymnastics Festival, colloquially known as Jahn Gymnastics, is a competition and participation event that has been held outdoors in Freyburg for over 100 years and is one of the most traditional gymnastics festivals of its kind.<\/p>\n\t<p><strong>\u00a0The 102nd Jahn Festival 2026 will again take place from August 21st to 23rd, 2026 <\/strong><strong>in Freyburg <\/strong><strong>more information to follow<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/mkA5untSe-A\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"youtube-video-thumbnail\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/play-button.svg\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<h2>Jahn-Turnfest100. Jahn-Turnfest<\/h2>\n\t<p><strong>1TP3One hundred<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the gymnastics festival was held for the 100th time. The program of the celebrations included<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Festive event in the atrium of the Rotk\u00e4ppchen sparkling wine cellar &#8211; (alternative open air event on the market square)<\/li>\n<li>Show programs on the festival meadow &#8211; designed by sports groups of the Burgenlandkreis and gymnastics clubs from all over Germany<\/li>\n<li>Workshop and participation offers of the Landesturnverbandes<\/li>\n<li>Performance of the German national gymnastics team<\/li>\n<li>Turnerball in the atrium of the Rotk\u00e4ppchen Sektkellerei and a big tent<\/li>\n<li>State Children's Gymnastics Festival<\/li>\n<li>Opening of the new permanent exhibition in the Jahn Museum<\/li>\n<li>Festschrift and publication on the history of the Jahnturnfest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkA5untSe-A\" title=\"Open in new tab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"  role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Open in new tab\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOpen in new tab\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<h2>About the Jahn Gymnastics FestivalAbout the Jahn Gymnastics Festival<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-01@2x.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-01@2x\" title=\"img-gymnastics-01@2x\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t<p>Fresh, pious, cheerful, Freyburg!<\/p>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Every year on the second-to-last weekend in August, people of all ages from 14 to over 90 gather to participate in gymnastics together. Elite and recreational gymnasts meet here, including many former members of the German national team, as well as athletes from Austria, Switzerland, Israel, and Japan. The most prominent participant and ambassador is Ms. Johanna Quaas, the world's oldest competitive gymnast at 95 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The competitions in apparatus gymnastics form the core of the programme. Offers such as the Jahn run, the orienteering, the gymnastics for everyone and various workshops round off the gymnastics festival programme. Around the competitions the organizers organize in cooperation with the Jahn Museum a varied supporting program with a variety of events and cultural offerings, including the ceremony with wreath-laying, the singing of the old gymnasts, exhibition openings, city tours, the gymnastics ball and the gymnastics party.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 20 years the Jahnturnen has become the national gymnastics festival of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landesturnverband-sachsen-anhalt.de\/\"><u>Saxony-Anhalt State Gymnastics Association e.V.<\/u><\/a>\u00a0 &#8211; which together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freyburg-tourismus.de\/index.php?startseite\"><u>City of Freyburg<\/u>\u00a0<\/a>acts as an organizer \u2013 develops.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\t<strong>History of Freyburger<br \/>\nJahn Festival<\/strong>\n\t<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today's Jahn Festival began as a track and field event. At the initiative of the new mayor, Friedrich Ehlert, the town of Freyburg invited people to a \u201ePopular Competitive Gymnastics\u201c event in 1901, which consisted of a pentathlon comprising high jump, pole vault, baseball throw, stone put, and a 100-meter run. This was intended to complement the remembrance of Jahn and serve as an additional attraction for the town.<\/p>\n<p>72 gymnasts registered for the first competition, and from then on, the event took place annually near August 11th, Jahn's birthday, on the Sch\u00fctzenplatz. After a few years, the name \u201eJahnwetturnen\u201c became established, the number of participants doubled, and in 1913, the Deutsche Turnerschaft took over the event. Afterwards, there was a five-year break due to World War I.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1920s, multi-event competitions for female gymnasts and older participants were introduced, as well as a combined running and swimming relay called \u201eRund um die Jahnst\u00e4tten.\u201c The number of participants increased to around 400. In 1937, apparatus gymnastics were performed for the first time during mixed competitions for older participants. The apparatus were located outdoors on the gymnastics field, as they still are today. A little later, there were also purely apparatus competitions and gymnastics competitions for female gymnasts. The event continued throughout World War II as the \u201eKriegs-Jahnwetturnen\u201c (Wartime Jahn Competition) with 500-600 participants.<\/p>\n<p>After the war, there was a long break, then the competitions were resumed in 1953 as \u201eJahn Memorial Competitions,\u201c later sometimes called \u201eJahn Memorial Gymnastics.\u201c The program continued to consist of popular, mixed, and apparatus competitions, supplemented in the sixties by dodgeball, volleyball, and folk sports competitions. However, it was reduced again in the seventies, particularly with the elimination of combined athletic events. Since then, apparatus gymnastics has characterized this traditional gathering, which attracts about 1000 male and female gymnasts to Freyburg every year. It has been called \u201eJahn Gymnastics Festival\u201c since 1994 and has since become the State Gymnastics Festival of Saxony-Anhalt.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Foto-Turnzeitung-1909_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t<p>Gymnastics Competition 1909, Hans Faber pole vaulting over 3.30 m (Source: Deutsche Turn-Zeitung)<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jahnturnen-auf-dem-Schuetzenplatz-1961.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t<p>Jahn gymnastics on the Sch\u00fctzenplatz 1961 (Source: Jahn Museum)<\/p>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-03.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-03\" height=\"651\" width=\"647\" title=\"img-gymnastics-03\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-04.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-04\" height=\"323\" width=\"324\" title=\"img-gymnastics-04\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-05.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-05\" height=\"323\" width=\"324\" title=\"img-gymnastics-05\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-08.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-08\" height=\"651\" width=\"358\" title=\"img-gymnastics-08\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-06.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-06\" height=\"323\" width=\"324\" title=\"img-gymnastics-06\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n<figure itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/img-gymnastics-07.jpg\" alt=\"img-gymnastics-07\" height=\"323\" width=\"324\" title=\"img-gymnastics-07\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/P1060782-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"P1060782\" title=\"P1060782\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_5482.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_5482\" title=\"IMG_5482\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/IMG_4958.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4958\" title=\"IMG_4958\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo_ltv_cmyk.svg\" alt=\"logo_ltv_cmyk\" title=\"logo_ltv_cmyk\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo_turnfest_cmyk.svg\" alt=\"logo_turnfest_cmyk\" title=\"logo_turnfest_cmyk\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jahn-museum.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/logo_jahngesellschaft_cmyk.svg\" alt=\"logo_jahngesellschaft_cmyk\" title=\"logo_jahngesellschaft_cmyk\" itemprop=\"image\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jahn-TurnfestJahn-Turnfest Entdecken Willkommen zum Jahnturnen! Das Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Turnfest, umgangssprachlich Jahnturnen genannt, ist eine Wettkampf- und Mitmachveranstaltung, die seit \u00fcber 100 Jahren unter freiem Himmel in Freyburg stattfindet und zu den traditionsreichsten Turnfesten dieser Art geh\u00f6rt. \u00a0Das 102. Jahn-Turnfest 2026 findet vom 21. bis 23. August 2026 wieder in Freyburg statt &#8211; weitere Informationen folgen Jahn-Turnfest100. 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