
The Rock am Ring and Rock im Park festivals are two simultaneous rock music festivals held annually. While Rock am Ring takes place at the Nürburgring race track, Rock im Park takes place at the Zeppelinfeld in Nuremberg.
Sharing nearly identical lineups, the two festivals are usually regarded as one event. All artists perform one day at the Nürburgring and another day in Nürnberg during the three-day event. There have been minor exceptions in the past years where an artist would be announced for one of the festivals only. Combined, Rock im Park and Rock am Ring are the largest music festivals held in Germany and one of the largest in the world with a combined attendance of over 150,000 people in 2007, selling out both events in advance for the first time.
Rock am Ring was originally planned as a one-time festival on the Nürburgring motorsports complex, celebrating the inauguration of a newer, shorter version of the race track in 1985, but due to its commercial success (with 75,000 audience members), it was decided to make the concert an annual event. However, after a dip in attendance for the 1988 event, the festival was put on hiatus for two years. In 1991, the festival returned with a new concept: as well as featuring well-known artists, event organizers present lesser known up-and-coming bands to the public. In 1993, Rock im Park took place for the first time in Vienna. For the 1994 event, Rock im Park moved to the disused Munich-Riem airport, and the following year to Munich’s Olympiastadion, where it found a home for the 1995 and 1996 event. In 1997 Rock im Park moved to Nuremberg’s Frankenstadion where it was held until the venue was unavailable in 2004 because the stadium was being renovated for the 2006 Football World Cup. Since 2004 the venue moved again to the current Zeppellinfeld, where Rock im Park was since held with the exception of the 2006 festival, which was moved to the Luitpoldhain.
FOO FIGHTERS
RISE AGAINST
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Apache 207
Fever 333
Giant Rooks
Yungblud
badmómzjay
Bounty & Cocoa
Brutus
Employed To Serve
FiNCH
Flogging Molly
Friends Don't Lie
Hot Milk
Jinjer
Juju
Mehnersmoos
Meshuggah
Motionless In White
Set It Off
Silverstein
Touché Amoré
Yonaka
KINGS OF LEON
K.I.Z
TENACIOUS D
Evanescence
Incubus
Kontra K
Papa Roach
Provinz
Blond
Boy Bleach
Bury Tomorrow
Cleopatrick
Gojira
Halestorm
Hollywood Undead
Hot Water Music
Mantar
Nothing But Thieves
Nova Twins
Pabst
The Chats
The Foxies
The Menzingers
The Raven Age
VV
DIE TOTEN HOSEN
BRING ME THE HORIZON
MACHINE GUN KELLY
Architects
Bullet For My Valentine
NOFX
Sum 41
Turnstile
Arch Enemy
Boysetsfire
Cari Cari
Carpenter Brut
Charlotte Sands
Die Nerven
Lauren Sanderson
Maggie Lindemann
Mod Sun
Nothing,Nowhere
Spiritbox
Steel Panther
Thees Uhlmann & Band
The Warning
Three Days Grace
Almost 95 years of racing, legendary victories and historic dramas – that‘s the story of Nürburgring. Opened in 1927 in the shadow of the more than 800-year-old “Noureburg“, the Nordschleife remains to this day one of the most beautiful and challenging race tracks in the world. But the story of the “Ring” is also about people, legend and motors.
The Nürburgring is a 150,000 person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long Nordschleife “North loop” track, built in the 1920s, around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. The north loop is 20.830 km (12.943 mi) long and contains more than 300 metres (1,000 feet) of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Jackie Stewart nicknamed the track “The Green Hell”.
Originally, the track featured four configurations: the 28.265 km (17.563 mi)-long Gesamtstrecke (“Whole Course”), which in turn consisted of the 22.835 km (14.189 mi) Nordschleife (“North Loop”) and the 7.747 km (4.814 mi) Südschleife (“South Loop”). There was also a 2.281 km (1.417 mi) warm-up loop called Zielschleife (“Finish Loop”) or Betonschleife (“Concrete Loop”), around the pit area.
Between 1982 and 1983, the start/finish area was demolished to create a new GP-Strecke, which is now used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened Nordschleife is still in use for racing, testing and public access.
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