When spring breaks through its winter rest and everything awakens, we gather for the start of our open-air season. On 25 April, PollerWiesen Opening 2026 brings us together at Cologne’s beloved Jugendpark to celebrate longer days, rising temperatures and the feeling we all share: being outside and embracing what we love 🧡
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Planning to arrive by bus? Secure your PollerWiesen ticket in combination with a bus shuttle (multiple routes) here.
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Jugendpark - Sachsenbergstr. 10 - 51063 Köln
12:00 - 22:00
16+
Bootshaus -Auenweg 173 - 51063 Köln
22:00 - 07:00
18+
The Jugendpark in Cologne is located on a promontory at the rhine-riverside north the Zoobrücke in the district Mülheim. Grassland, beach sections and open space with about 30000qm area makes this park a perfect place for PollerWiesen.
There's the possibility of parking your car right underneath Zoobrücke next to the entrance to Jugendpark. The parking spaces are limited.
Moving deeper into the open-air season, PollerWiesen Festival 2026 on 24 May becomes our flagship gathering. Across four scenic stages, we dive into a diverse soundscape, each space offering its own character, colours, and rhythm. A full day of discovery, energy and shared moments awaits 🖤
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Planning to arrive by bus? Secure your PollerWiesen ticket in combination with a bus shuttle (multiple routes) here.
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Revierpark Wischlingen - Höfkerstr. 12 - 44149 Dortmund
Parking: Wischlinger Weg 157
11:00 - 22:00
16+
JunkYard - Schlägelstraße 57 - 44145 Dortmund
22:00 - End
18+
Tresor.West - Phoenixplatz -44263 Dortmund
22:00 - End
18+
The Revierpark Wischlingen in Dortmund has rambling grassland what makes it an amazing place for our PollerWiesen Festival. On each of the five stages there's something to discover. Main, beach, hilltop, hidden as well as woods live up to one's name.
Parking is only possible at Wischlinger Weg 157 (Entrance West).
When water, sunlight and sound meet, summer feels complete. On July 12, PollerWiesen Boat 2026 takes us along the Rhine for our final chapter of the season - a day on the river filled with music, movement and the unmistakable feeling of being together 💙
Boarding 12:30 / Departure 13:45 / Return 21:00
The MS RheinMagie has a 2000qm effective surface which makes it the biggest event-ship in europe. With it's in- and outdoor area the PollerWiesen boat is forearmed to any weather. Of course the boat also sets sail and ships down the Rhein, one of Germany's biggest rivers.
To get to the Bastei you need to catch the underground lines 5, 12, 15, 16 or 18 until station Ebertplatz.
From the past into the present - a journey through sound, freedom, and time.
Before the big stages, before the hype — there was a movement. Raw, honest, and driven by one thing: freedom.
Techno was never just music. It was a feeling. A space without boundaries. A place where everyone belonged.
This is where it all began. And this is what still drives us today.
