About 400 were planned, but only about 40 were built.
The Thingstatte in Heidelberg.
A Thingspiel was thus a festival and a rally in one.
1936 Summer Olympics at the Berlin Waldbuhne.
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The Berlin Waldbuhne in 2008.
Hundreds of actors, sometimes even thousands, often took part inThingplays.
The Thingspiel movement was short-lived.
After the war, some of the completed Thingstatten found use as venue for concerts.
Others fell into disuse.
The Kalkberg Stadium located in a disused quarry in the center of Bad Segeberg.
The Karl May Games have been held here every year since 1952.
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The open-air stage in Loreley was originally a Thingstatte.
It is still in use today.
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Heidelberg Thingstatte.
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Heidelberg Thingstatte.
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The Thingstatte in the Brandberge in Halle was the first Thingstatte to be built.
It is in a poor state of preservation.
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The open-air theater in the Kuhtal on St. Annaberg in Upper Silesia.
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The Thingstatte in Windeck.
It contains a National Socialist memorial in memory of those who fell in the First World War.
