Thousands of people dancing by a blue shimmering pool, well-known DJs, cocktails, fireworks: What reads like a memory of pre-Corona times or a fantasy should become reality next week.

Not in a distant country, but in the middle of the Rhine-Main area.

As reported by Bernd Breiter and his Frankfurt-based company BigCityBeats, the Frankfurt Administrative Court granted the applications on Tuesday to hold the WCD Pool Sessions festival from September 3rd to 5th in the Frankfurt Stadionbad, each with up to 12,000 visitors a day.

Christian Riethmüller

Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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The health department of the city of Frankfurt had already approved the event last week with reference to the changes to the escalation concept of the state of Hesse, but made conditions under which, according to Breiter, the festival would not have been "realistically feasible". The organizer and music producer had therefore decided to appeal to the Frankfurt Administrative Court on Friday to reduce these requirements. In a communication, Breiter referred to the outdoor character of the event and also to the regulations that would apply to Eintracht Frankfurt's home games. The Bundesliga soccer team is currently allowed to play its games in the stadium in front of up to 25,000 visitors.

The stadium in Deutsche Bank Park would actually have been Breiter's playing field on the first weekend in September if the World Club Dome music spectacle was to take place there.

This major event, originally planned in June and then postponed to September 3 to 5, was canceled last week due to the current Corona situation.

The pool sessions, which have now been approved, were otherwise part of the program of the World Club Dome Festival, which in recent years had attracted tens of thousands of techno and electro fans to Frankfurt, who celebrated to the sets of DJ stars such as David Guetta and Sven Väth .

Big names have now also been announced for the pool party in the stadium pool, to which local hero Sven Väth as well as genre stars such as Nina Kraviz and Claptone are expected.

A strict 3-G concept

The exact conditions under which the festival will be carried out remained unclear on Wednesday. A request from the FAZ to the Frankfurt City Health Department remained unanswered at the time of going to press. Organizer BigCityBeats says it has committed itself to a comprehensive hygiene and infection protection concept, “which has been scientifically and legally examined by experts and found to be good. With people's safety first, ”says Bernd Breiter.

A strict 3-G concept has been agreed for admission, which only allows fully vaccinated, convalescent and tested people access to the site, whereby those tested must present a PCR test. Otherwise common and, above all, cheaper antigen tests would not be sufficient for admission, emphasize the organizers, who insist on the pre-registration of visitors on their website because of the expected high demand. There will also be detailed information about the hygiene concept over the next few days.

In a communication, organizer Bernd Breiter said he was happy about the administrative court's decision to approve the festival, which could well serve as a model for other major events: “I am overjoyed that reason and will have triumphed and that culture is still taking place this summer may, ”he said. The number of new corona infections in Hesse continues to rise. Within one day, 1,028 more cases were confirmed in the state, as shown by figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The incidence climbed from 56.3 the previous day to 60.6.