European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 26, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sto ies by Linda White travel editor this is the time of year when Quile a lol of Europe goes up in smoke. Even the Rivers Burn nol that anything is actually destroyed it s ust that the names of these fireworks festivals Are suggestive Rhine in flames Heidelberg Castle burning. Those two Are 1he Besl known but fireworks shows in summer and autumn can be Lound All  continent. Great Brilain reserves ils biggest blast Lor Guy Fawkes Day on nov. 5 a 35-Minule-Long fireworks show Wilh music is planned aug 30 in fran Lurl. This frankly tet Fem works nacht is being billed As the biggest fireworks display Ever in the City and it will to synchronized with music by Tchaikovsky. It All gets started about a . A1 Reslock. On the outskirts of Iho City Wilh a Markel and strolling performers. The lire lest itself begins Between 9 and 9 30  the show is being sponsored by mama concerts and the Frankfurt Amer Oscr. Tickets Are on Sale Al the alter Opar and ticket agencies Nihro Ghoul Hessen. Rheinland Talz and Baden Wurttemberge they Are also on Safe in Frankler Al the us Cost is 17 Marks about $8 50. Entry Gale is on August Euler Strasse. The last in Ella burning cd the season Al Heidelberg will be sept. 6., beginning Aboul 9 or 9 30 . The illumination recalls the time Back in 1693, when the French actually did Burn Theca Sale it is commemorated three limes each year in june july and september. The Best spots for watching the fireworks Are on the Banks of the Neckar River opposite the City and near the Alle Brucke old Bridge crowds will begin 1o gather Early and food and drink stands will be set up. For Inlo Malion Contact Heidelberg tourist office Nedrich Eberl anlage 2. D-6900 Heidelberg Germany the Heidelberg Castle burning has been taking place for a Long time. In innocents abroad. Mark Twain described what to Wil tossed in 1878 vast sheaves of Van coloured rockets were vomited skyward out of the Black in goals of the Castle Lowers instantly every detail of the prodigious ruin blood revealed and glowing Wilh an Elmol intolerable splendor of fire and color multiply thai splendor six limes and you have it nine in flames six towns along the Rhino burning As a flotilla of 70 ships sails past Rhine in flames takes place three times each year once in late Spring from Bonn on the third saturday in september this year sell 20 in conjunction with the is Goar and St. Goar Hausen wine festivals and. The biggest on Iha second saturday in August irom spay 1o Koblenz. To simulate the  the houses and restaurants on both Banks of the Rhine Burn red lights in their windows and on their terraces Bengal lights Are focused against castles churches and historic buildings the red flares and the heavy smoke make Tho fires seem real in the biggest Rhine i Estival. The flotilla sails 17 Kilometres past the burning buildings Multi coloured rockets till the shy As Tho ships pass some 30,000 people watch from the ships and another 500,000 line Iho shores. The High Point of the evening comes Aboul 11pm, when Ehron Breitstein the monster fortress. Above Koblenz is set  the conflagration is a backdrop for a huge fireworks display. Koblenz claims the very first Rhine in flames Aboul 1768. When fireworks shows greeted important visitors. Tho name Lof the show was coined in the 1920s by tourist promoters and was revived Atler world War ii. The current spectacle Dales irom 1956, when the Rheinland Slalz tourist Mico undertook the promotion. It now requires year Long planning and preparation and counts on thru help of the River police red Cross army ire depart men and others for information about Tho sept 20 Rhine in flames Contact tourist office d-5401 St. Goar Germany. Tol. 06741-383, or tourism office. D 5422 St. Goar Hausen Germany. Tel. 06771 427. Information Aboul the big August Rhine in flames will be available Early next summer from  Rheinland Pfalz. Pollach 1420, d-5400 Koblenz Germany Here Are some other fireworks displays scheduled for the coming months. Germany fall festival with fireworks Mannheim Luise Pla Zaug 30, fireworks on Lake cons Lance sept b. Wan see in flames. Berlin soul 27. For boat reservations Telephone 030-6100040 or 8038750. Boats depart from wan see station at 7 30 p a. Great Britain fireworks Chris Church Park. Ipswich nov. 1. Bonfire and fireworks Allm Glon Castle nov. 1. Fireworks Leeds Castle aids Lone nov. I. Guy Fawkes spectacular Yarmouth stadium Caister on sea. Great Yarmouth nov. 2. Luxembourg fireworks on Iho Banks of the Mosel River Graven Macher. Sept 13 at 8 45 . Scenes making fireworks is something like making bombs. Quite a Bil of the work Hasto be done by hand and extreme safety precautions have to to prac laced. In fact until the 18th Century the manufacture and use of fireworks were under military control throughout Europe. Nol to worry. Fireworks Don t pack enough Power to interest terrorists and their manufacture and use at least in Germany is Slid carefully licensed. Germany is one of the big three along with Leafy and Japan among classical fireworks festival countries. And when the rockets go up at Frankfurt s Feuer woks Nacho aug 30, one of the biggest of the shows in the country will be on. Two of the live German arms specializing in fireworks spec Lades will be cooperating to provide the bang Moog Nico of Wuppertal and Oskar Lunig of Stuttgart it will take 15 specialists to operate the controls and two Days ust to set up the show. That does t count the programming that has gone on for months already. Helmut Asal of Oskar Lunig wrote Iho show using a graph similar to the Wavy lines of a Seismograph to Chart the music to help him space the commands to lire at the right intervals each show the firms plan is Rifle real they Are cons Lanty experimenting with new combinations of Light and color for effect the two firms also collaborated in 19b4 in Berlin to produce Andre Heller s file theater a Gigantic fireworks play Hal Lold the Story of the world. I Page 14 the stars and stripes