This festival, held three times during the summer season, was first celbrated as a rather modest firework display in the year 1815. On this date, representatives of high nobility, the Czar and Austrian Emperor were local for the "Holy Alliance" packt against Napoleon. Today, the fireworks and illumination of the Castle are held to commemorate the destruction of Heidelberg by French troops during the War of the Palatine Succession. The fireworks are launched from the Old Bridge while 50 fire-brigade volunteers finish lighting the castle in it's usual ominous red.
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