Schloss Dyck Classic Days
Jüchen/Rhein Kreis Neuss Schloss Dyck
Classic Days not only is one of the outstanding classic car and
motor sports events in Europe - they are totally dedicated to the
good deed.
Since three years every first weekend in August brings a wave of
automobile nostalgia to the moated castle Schloss Dyck.
Up to 5,000 visitor classic cars park in the meadows around the
castle and make Germany's biggest open air auto museum, while some
40 handpicked collector's vehicles pose as "Jewels in the
Park" during the Concours d'Élégance in the castle's parkland.
Further 80 historic race and sports cars and pre war motorcycles
create a unique atmosphere on the triangle track of the "Racing
Legends" right in front of the castle. The beauty of the vehicles,
the roaring of their engines and the amazing scenery of the castle
attract up to 40,000 visitors every year.
Classic Days are a family friendly festival - visitors enjoy the
releaxed mood, pick nick in the parkland, listen to the Jazz music
and indulge the unusual combination of English garden style,
historic architecture and technique history.
Many visitors dress up matching their car's era.
This is how the organizer likes them best because it makes the
event a time journey through the different ages of automobilism.
Since we talk about 120 years of motorized vehicle history this
makes a pretty cross section of lady's and gentleman's fashion
covering more than one century. Truely an experience for all senses
at summerly temperatures. The old word of "merrymaking" suggests
itself.
So much ease and beauty of the venue sometimes let the ambitious
objective of the Classic Days at Schloss Dyck fall into
oblivion:
Schloss Dyck Classic Days is a non-profit event completely
organized by volunteers donating all entrance fees and surplus from
sponsoring partnerships to the Schloss Dyck foundation in order to
support the enormous expensive restructuration works on buildings
and parkland.
Initiated by a single person with a clear vision, convincing a
handful of friends it ended up in an association of meanwhile 68
people of different age, social background and skills. Year after
year those few realize this classic car event unique in entire
Europe during their leisure time. It takes more than 25,000 hours
of voluntary work to prepare the Classic Days, organize and
realize it. At more than 40 weekends the restless associated
members meet Saturdays and Sundays at the castle, work in the
organization office or swarm out in order to visit fairs and venues
all over Europe and convince participants and collectors.
The patronage of Dr. Ingo Wolf (Federal Minister of
the Interior Northrhine-Westphalia), Dieter Patt (District
Administrator Rhein Kreis Neuss), Margarete Kranz (Mayor city of
Juechen) as well as the host Simeon Count Wolff Metternich
strengthens the volunteers and they grateful appreciate the support
of management, executive board and employees of Schloss Dyck
foundation. A harmonious cooperation has evolved over the
years.
Nevertheless it stays a challenge every year making an event for
40,000 people with such a few active club members a success and
presenting those visitors the handpicked rarities from vehicle
history from international private collections or car maker museums
in motion. It fills the organizers with pride that all Classic Days
in total left more than 400,000 Euros for the foundation and its
conservation works.
