European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 8, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Each year when the Harvest is in and the nights turn Crisp and the Little Village of Gross thousands of other villages throughout a mass lost weekend during which the new wine Hows freely and All cares and enmities Are nestled in the stoned Hills of the Home of trolls and hobgoblins giants and dwarfs of childrens Gross Umstadt is famed for us White wine and its one in provides the town with the pageantry which makes its annual wine festival famous in the this As in years gone the towns fairest its youths attired As Page and its bearded elders Clad in reenacted the Story of Gotz von famous Warrior Knight of the Middle legend has once fell victim to the wine from the towns von who wore a grotesque Iron hand to replace one lost in besieged the town in but the wily City fathers subdued the raging Warrior by sending to Greet him one of its fairest Maidens bearing a Flagon of the local the same wine still mellows the present Day residents of Gross particularly during the annual besides the traditional pageant in which von Berlic Hingen rides into the town to be met by an attractive cup the town this year presented a Parade of floats showing All the processes of Vine cultivation and wine a Eca sponsored exhibit of farm and numerous other curbside hawkers sold giant hot All types of clothing j 1 Farmers hardly changed since the Days of Gotz von formed the baggage train in procession which reenacted his Entrance into the Little Inge attractive Blond Stu who enacted the role of the cup bearer and presented wine to the a fanfare of trumpets heralded the arrival of the Iron handed Vonberlichin in the Central Square of the town where presentation of wine was Here von portrayed by Paul also a receives the keys to the town borne by two Page boys dress of the 16th i the stars and stripes